The Power of Focus

How do you wake up in the morning?
Do you jump out of bed and look forward to starting
the day?
Do you wake up in the morning and you did not want
to get out of bed, hear the alarm clock ring and you
press the snooze button over and over again until you
are forced to get up and go to the bathroom?
Or wake up even more tired?
With the busy life style that we lead today, most of the
time human beings are operating on autopilot, seldom
do we stop and ask ourselves essential questions.
In addition we are being constantly bombarded with
information ( breaking news, whatsapp messages, tweets,
emails… ) and we are reacting to the situations, that our
lives are being controlled by external environment that
we have forgotten simple concepts of life.
What do you think about when you wake
up?
Do you think about all the things you need to do, the
list is endless and you feel overwhelmed before you
get out of bed.
Or
You wake up in the morning, thinking about all the
challenges that you are facing in your life, think about
all the critics that people have given you, even the
areas where you have not succeeded. Then you feel
discouraged and de-motivated.
Or
Think about what is missing in our lives not enough
money, no big title (Director, CEO ) after your name or
you do not have a flashy car and so on.
When faced with a problem what do you
do?
Spend time discussing and analyzing the problem in
great depth and then defining it in unsolvable terms?
Or do you find out who is to blame?
Our thoughts
Human beings think between 50,000- 70,000 thoughts a
day (mental chatter, images or movies playing in our head)
95% of these thoughts are repetitive of previous days
and 80% of the habitual thoughts are negative.
In order to achieve success we need to learn how to
focus these thoughts on what we want.
Story
One day the Zen master wanted to show his students
a new technique of shooting an arrow. He told his
students to cover his eyes with a cloth and then he
shot his arrow. When he opened his eyes, he saw the
target with no arrow in it and when he looked at his
students, they looked embarrassed because their
teacher had missed.
The Zen master asked them, “What lesson do you think I
intend to teach you all today? ” They answered, “We
thought you would show us how to shoot at the target
without looking.” The Zen master said, “ No, I taught you
that if you want to be successful in life, don’t forget the
target. You have to keep an eye on the target, otherwise
you may miss a good opportunity in life. ” They looked at
each other, impressed with the lesson.
The moral of the story is we need to consistently focus
on what we want and we need to realize that :
What thoughts we focus on we FEEL, therefore
our thoughts have a direct effect on our
emotions
What we focus on and feel we attract in our
lives. Our destiny is consistently shaped by our
thoughts.

“Challenges are what
make life interesting and
overcoming them is what
makes life meaningful.” –
Joshua J. Marine

Tips : How to control the FOCUS of your
thoughts
When faced with a challenge or a problem spend 5% of
your time discussing the problem, 95% of your time
finding innovative and creative solutions. Remember
“The problem is not the problem. The problem is your
attitude to the problem”
Ensure that you do the following on a daily basis:
Learn something new on a daily basis. Learning does
not end when you obtain your degree or leave
university. The journey of life is a learning process,
successful people converted their failures into stepping
stones by learning from it and moving on. When you
try something and it does not work out, do not
despair, all you have to do is find a better way to do it.
Enjoy – Ensure that on a daily basis that you are able
to enjoy and have fun. You have the ability to create
memorable moments on a daily basis.

 Remember
“life is not measured by
the number of breaths we
take, but how many
moments that take our
breath away”

Appreciate – As soon as we develop a sense of
appreciation (gratitude), we are shifting our focus of
thoughts on what we have and what we have been
able to achieve.
Reflect on your life. “An unexamined life is not worth
living ” Socrates. Reflection allows for self assessment,
checking that you are on the right track. Reflection
gives you time to monitor your thoughts and actions,
to check whether they are in alignment with your
purpose in life.
Negative thoughts have a way of coming when you
least expect it to. People spend too much time thinking
about what happen to them in the past or the
possibility of negative things happening to them in the
future.
To get rid of these negative thoughts ask yourself one
QUESTION “ If this was my LAST day alive, what would I
Love to do..” then go and do it.

Do not postpone living

Reference:
https://addicted2success.com/motivation/how-the-power-of-focus-can-lead-you-to-success/


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Do not postpone living.