The Importance of Focus by, Corey Wells Focus is the act of channeling all our activities into achieving a desired objective. Focused behavior doesn’t just happen by chance. It happens when we take the time necessary to regularly look at our own behavior and then choose what needs to be done each day in order to obtain our goal. This requires a lot of personal discipline and the ability to shield yourself from the distractions of everyday events or other opportunities. Someone who is truly focused does not allow occasional problems or the resistance of others to keep them from pursuing their ultimate goal. Although setting a desired goal and focusing your efforts to obtain that goal my sound simple, it’s not. As time passes the concentration necessary to keep focused is continually under assault by such things as boredom, new objectives and other possibilities. Many start out with clear objectives, but find themselves inevitably distracted by other emerging and exciting opportunities. It’s easy to get excited about something new and many times people have fallen pray to shifting focus half way through their original goal. What happens when we lose focus? We start going in multiple directions toward multiple goals and end up doing nothing well. We have essentially invited failure by focusing our efforts on too many things. Success comes from focusing on doing one thing right, rather than doing many things poorly. Stay focused and be successful at whatever you do. Let’s get started. ” Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.” -Heywood Broun, ” If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr., “You must be willing to do the things today others don’t do in order to have the things tomorrow others won’t have. “ -Les Brown, “He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.” -Sir Thomas Browne, “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” -Robert Browning, ” “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” -William Jennings Bryan “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” -Pearl Buck, “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” -Buddha Visit us at 8quotes.com Less