Focus

“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures— JACK CANFIELD”

We often get stuck in the routine of life, often missing a deeper connection with things that are quite essential to our life journey. As a person, I love to daydream. I can daydream about anything, I can even daydream of my wedding.  Aside from my fantasies, most times I get carried away by other people’s success that I fail to notice that I’m gifted.

One thing that troubles us in our life journey is our inability to pay attention. Lack of attention can be vexatious especially when you have cooked up plans of becoming a celebrity in your head. Lack of concentration can be one hell of a problem and it can trigger you to miss your paths.

Most people find it difficult to focus on things that they know how to do best, sometimes, it could be as a result of low self-esteem or ridicule from people, or even being carried away by others’ success. Most times they might be distracted by their past failures. 

Staying focused is one of the issues people encounter every day. One might be willing to do something, but one's mind will be very far. People lose their steps in life due to lack of focus and you know retracting it back might just be too late or just not come with ease.

Losing concentration comes in different forms. Some lose focus due to low-self esteem. In the case of low-self esteem, these set of people find themselves going astray because there's the inner feeling of they are never good. They don’t see anything good in what they lay their hands on. They condemn themselves even before others do. When they set to do something, they easily lose focus because they already have this mindset that they aren’t good enough and so in-between, their minds wander off. 

Another is, being carried away by others’ success. It is very good to admire people’s success but it is very bad to want to be like them. The moment you start dwelling on others’ success, you begin to live their dreams and live their lives and in the long run, you get to realize it was not yours. Be free to admire but don’t aspire to be like them. Focus on what makes you YOU. 

Some people get carried away by comparing others’ achievements to theirs. Comparison is the beginning of our problem. You focus so much on becoming better than your counterparts that you lose focus of your direction. Don't compare yourself with anyone. Compare yourself with the person you see in the mirror all you need do is strive to be better than yesterday. Instead of comparing yourself, why not focus on creating new ideas that will make you outstanding. 

Some pay rapt attention to their past failures that they lose track of time. While you focus on your past failures, have it at the back of your mind that it is PAST and what is past can never be PRESENT.

Remember you are gifted in various ways, so, channel your FOCUS into something worthwhile. “When you Focus on what you want, everything else falls away”.