Protect Your Focus or Face the Consequences

Protect Your Focus or Face the Consequences

There's only 24 hours in a day, that's a given. However, it's how

you focus them that really count.

Between the ringing of the phone, urgent emails, instant messages,

drop-in visitors, tighter deadlines, endless opportunities, and

ever greater expectations, focusing on what's most important - the

highest and best use of your time has become more of a challenge

than ever before.

With all the distractions that abound on a daily basis, you can

lose focus rather easily and be pulled off course routinely.

Every new opportunity is a contestant for time and focus that once

lost creates collateral damage to existing results and momentum.

Time is the most precious of life's commodities and the precious

things and possessions you long for become faded memories without

sustained focus.

You must jealously guard your focus as ANY individual or

organization in which focus is either absent or incidental is not a

successful organization.

Lack of focus means your full potential will never see the light of

day. It is the key ingredient that can make or break your career

and ultimately your life.

Yet, when you look closely at most people and businesses, when you

peek under the covers you will more often find them in an unfocused

state.

Focus is a strategic asset and the KEY FACTOR behind all results.

Results require that you concentrate your efforts on the smallest

number of activities that will produce the largest amount of

productivity.

Yet, no other principle is violated as constantly, as recklessly,

and as directly or indirectly as the basic principle of focus.

The days of being everything to everyone are effectively over.

Your primary objective in life is to find your true north and then

to point all resources in that direction.

Focus is the future in the sense that it makes a prediction about

where the future lies and then to take specific steps to make the

future happen.

Focus is a language that speaks simply and eloquently to the

fundamental human similarity between people?

Why?

Because everyone struggles with it!

Quote

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Eric Hoffer-(1902 - 1983)

Capitalism

There are many drawbacks to capitalism. But capitalism and entrepreneurship are proven to still be the best way people around the world can progress forwards.

A handful of greedy people (mainly within banks) have fundamentally created the financial mess that we are in. But what people have got to be careful of (and I’m not biased!) is not dismissing every single entrepreneur out there - the restaurant owners, the street vendors, the start-ups, even the airline owners, because of the actions of the unscrupulous few.

It is through the capitalist system that people get paid, hospitals get built, innovative ideas become reality and young people get educated. Yet the way some of the press and some politicians talk, there is a danger of a complete dismissal of capitalism and a complete swing in the other direction.

Luke Johnson, a brilliant entrepreneur who also happens to be a great writer and thinker, wrote on this subject in the Financial Times recently, and I agree with him wholeheartedly.

He said: “Possibly, capitalism is poor at promoting the cause and explaining its merits.

“No doubt most highly successful entrepreneurs are tough individuals. Some break the rules, but damning an entire class for the high-profile errors of the few is destructive and ill-judged.”

It is becoming fashionable now to try to knock entrepreneurs, the very people who are going to create the jobs of the future. Just being an entrepreneur, making a difference to other people’s lives is a tremendous thing to do, but on top of that, ideally each company should become a force for good, as I explained in my recent book. Let’s continue to screw business as usual.

Sir Richard Branson

Have you examined your own life? I would like each and everyone, including myself to examine our own life daily.
What you contribute on a daily basis?
How you treat People?
How you use your time?
Whether you r doing good or doing your best?
And so I ask:

•  Is your life like driftwood being tossed to and fro, or are you making your own waves and going in directions you-by choice-want togo?
• To what ends, or purposes are you daily choices leading ?
• To what ends or purposes would you like to lead?
• Is your life in harmony with timeless,universal principles?