What Do You Focus On?
Copyright 2005 Rasheed Ali
I'm sure you've probably heard that lack of focus is the cause
of many great failures and focusing on a task is one of the
steps to success. Yet, as I write this I'm being distracted and
confused by many different things.
In the past I would have run off on a tangent and never finished
this post. Hey I'm not perfect but I've learned the importance
of living in the moment and finishing the task at hand.
This may seem overly simplistic, but so many people have such
GREAT talents, intellect, skills and dreams BUT, we never share
them with the rest of the world.
Why?
Well that's something only YOU can explain my friend. What
prevents you from sticking and focusing to your goals and
becoming a success story?
As an example here's what happened to me just this week.
I'm writing my book, "The One Word That Can Change Your Life and
Make You Outrageously Successful" and ideas are just flowing in
like a river in the rain, when suddenly I get a phone call from
one of my best friends who has a HUGE opportunity to distribute
a great product here in New York City! Of course, I shouldn't
have picked up the phone.
Now the income potential is pretty good but, I'm no distributor.
I told him that I was pretty focused on what I'm doing right now
and don't want to do something else right now. Well of course
like most friends do, he told me how important my help was and
that he really needed it.
I'm not a bad guy BUT, I'm not like I was. In the past I would
have jumped on this and forgot about what I was doing AND go it
for FREE! Well I'm not that guy any more, so here's what I did.
I got off the phone and finished the part of the book I was
working on.
Later on I got another phone call from him and I made an
agreement to make some calls to a few people to give him some
major leads, he would do the rest of the work from there and
split the profits with me. That's it. I could not dedicate my
time to something other than what I was focused on.
I made the calls the next day as promised.
What I learned is that you can't be everything to everyone and
trying to do so, will cause you more pain than pleasure. The
next time something like this happens to you, remember that.
Think about YOU! Focus on YOU and your goal or task and you will
uncover one of the great secrets of success.
You wouldn't turn right or left if your destination was directly
in front of you!
I don't want to put it this way but...
Think about this:
If a person who was really constipated AND couldn't sleep had a
choice of Powerful Sleeping Pills or a Powerful Laxative and
they decided to take BOTH; what do you think would happen?
Hmmmm????? :-P
Unfortunately, this is how many people make decisions in their
life and lose focus.
Bottom Line: FOCUS on your goals and objectives and let nothing
get in your way. Make a DECISION and stick to it until you get
what you desire.