Be anything when you focus.
You can be anything you set out to be when you focus your efforts. You can be as good or as bad as you want to be. So if you want to be good you have to really want to be good. Success is just out there. It may be just beyond your reach. So you have to stretch a little further. You have to work a little harder and prove yourself just a little more. Along the way you are going to learn certain lessons, those certain lessons that life will teach you from being in different circumstances. I was listening to sports radio one day and this was a local station in town and the radio announcers (two of them) were having a discussion about the local football team. They said that the football team has a challenge coming up this week referring to the opposing team. So-and-so is coming to town. And one of the announcers said that these players are going to have to get rid of all distractions and stay focused on the game. They will also need to eliminate the need to make a whole lot of decisions. They don't need any major decisions to make in their lives right now. They just need to focus and concentrate on the upcoming game. Also I heard a discussion about how some football teams would take their teams and put them in a hotel the week before the game. They would stay there a week before the game to eliminate any chance of the players coming into contact with someone from the outside which could cause a distraction. When I first heard these things I thought that was very interesting. So in order to achieve great success you look at others who have achieved great success like Tiger Woods to Michael Jordan to Michael Jackson and I guess these people have very little to think about outside of what they do. Tiger woods when he was great as a golfer he only focused on golf. He did not think about too many other things. Distractions was minimized.Usually a lot of athletes spend a lot of their time away from family and friends so they can focus and eliminate any distractions. That way they can focus solely on their task of performing at their very best. They can focus solely on the task in which they have to do and give it their undivided attention. This is what helps them to enhance their performance.
So that is what is needed for many of us. We have to look at our own lives and look at the reason why we are not as successful as we would like to be. Could it be that the reason why we're not as successful is because of our inability to focus on one area and concentrate on one thing at a time? Often we concentrate when we are at work when we have a job. We concentrate on that task. We should not work in an unsafe way. So we are encouraged to focus on our task at hand by our bosses. That's what it's going to take in order for us to get that job done safely and effectively. The same thing applies to your dream. You are going to have to eliminate all distractions. Get some place where you can focus solely on what you want to do, eliminating the need to make other petty decisions about other things. You can become excellent at something by applying this approach. How good could you really be at something if you can put everything you have into it. Imagine if you put your whole heart, mind, and soul and body and concentration solely on that task that is in front of you. You can become great at it. So you have to figure out ways in which you can do just that.
By Stan Thomas.
