Is Lack of Focus Coming In Your Way To Your Success

Focus is one of the main ingredient of success.

Focus is defined as close or narrow attention or concentration. It means you channelize all your energies on a thing which is center of your attention.

Lack of focus is a very common cause of failure to achieve. If you do not focus on your goals, you do not work hard and procrastinate your work. Moreover, when you work you do not put your one hundred percent efforts.

The day has but 24 hours.  You need to priortize your work. Your most important goal should be on top of your priority list.

However if you are not focused enough,  you would , knowingly or unknowingly allow other chores to come and dominate your priority list.

That hampers achieving your goal.

Let us take an example.

Let us say you want to loose 10 kgs of extra weight you are carrying around. Let us say that you want to accomplish this in next 4 months. That makes it average of 2.5 kgs per month.

You would achieve this if you workout for 45 minutes daily, cut on your oils and junkfood.

You need to remind yourself  of this and keep your target in mind you would succeed in loosing the desired weight.

But it is easy to get distracted. It is easy toget busy with office work,  a tv serial or something like that and forget.

This generally happens when you are not focused.

It is human nature to get distracted. We like entropy.

This is true especially for initial phases. You need to work hard to maintain your focus.

there are many a things that would hlp you to maintain your focus.

Reminders

Reminders are great way to remain focused.  You can use notes, your pc or your mobile for this prupose, whatever you are comfortable with.

Organization

If you orgainze your time better, you would get more time to focus on the things. You would not be pressed hard to accomplish .

One Thing At One Time

Choose one specific activity that you would focus on. If you have tooo many goals to achieve and pursue them simultaneously, you would rech nowhere.

Pick one, achieve on and then move on to second.

Please share your methods to stay focused.

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Achieve Your Goals and Create Success

Each of us has a desire to achieve and succeed. But when it comes to reaching the pinnacle of success, it can be difficult to know where to turn for advice. It seems that everyone and his brother is touting the one way to the greatest level of achievement, and it can be hard to know whom to trust.

The real truth is that there is no one key to achievement. What works for one person may not necessarily be right for the next person.

It is important, therefore, to evaluate your own individual goals when thinking about your achievement and accomplishments. Every person will have a different set of goals, and therefore they will need a different strategy for achieving those goals. While some employees have their eyes on the corner office, and see this as the ultimate achievement, others would rather put in their time as a quality employee and take early retirement to enjoy the rest of their life. These two goals are very different, so it just makes sense that how these goals are achieved will differ.

Other people may view achievement as not being an employee at all. Many people view the ultimate achievement as being responsible for themselves by starting their own business and being in charge of their own future. There is nothing like owning a business to bring yourself face to face with the importance of achievement and goals. If you can serve the customer better than anyone else, your business is likely to be a success. Many people love the challenges of running their own business, as well as the sense of achievement and accomplishment that comes with it.

Of course, the importance of achievement does not end at the office door. Achievement and self-fulfillment are just as important to a successful and happy personal life as they are to a profitable and fulfilling business life. Setting personal goals, and enjoying the feeling of achievement that comes with meeting them is every bit as important as being successful at your job and enjoying what you do.

Unfortunately, many people get so wrapped up in making their careers a success that they fail to focus on the importance of their personal lives. It is important to include your family in any major decisions, and to take time to enjoy their many goals and achievements as well as your own. Without a happy personal life, even the greatest financial success can be hollow and unfulfilling.

The bottom line is that there is no single key to success and achievement, no matter how much we wish there were. Every person must make his or her own plans for achieving their most important goals, and those goals will be different for every individual. The key to a successful and happy career is much the same as the key to a happy and successful personal life. The secret is to balance the personal and the professional, to set goals properly, and to know what is truly important in your life. Read more

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Your Own Attitude That Will Make The Difference!

In life there is a huge variety of things that you can‘t control. Nevertheless, you should never let those things, regardless of how bad they are, defeat you.

Just remember this, no matter how bad the situation gets, you are the one who decides how to react to it and how much it can affect you.

It is essential to always look and concentrate on the positive aspects of any happening. In other words, try identifying the good parts in everything. It might sound extremely hard or very foolish at the beginning.

But seeking the good aspects in the worst situation of all will help you exercise your way of thinking and, in no time, you will find yourself meditating in an incredibly constructive and positive manner.

The question is how to find the power to analyze everything in a good light, when things can‘t get worse than they already are. The answer is to detach yourself from the facts.

Most things in this life are temporary and you have to move on, no matter what. If you train yourself to smile a lot and be polite to the people around you, you might discover that, in fact, this actually represents an efficient medicine against bad thoughts and a healthy attitude towards life can sometimes play a crucial role.

Nevertheless, remember to seek out the lesson you should learn after a disgraceful occurrence. Have a learning attitude towards whatever happened and try to convince yourself that all is for your own interest after all everything bad that happens to you can only make you wiser, stronger and contributes to your self-improvement, if you know how to turn the situation in your favor.

When there is an extremely difficult problem to solve and no solution seems to fit in, remember to change the perspective from which you are analyzing the data. Getting awfully scared and not being able to think clearly, will definitely not lead you to resolving the issue. On the other hand, if you meditate and try to observe the situation form another perspective, which is, if not better, at least less harmful, you might soon identify a way to solve the problem.

If your worries are related to your future, strive to impose to yourself that you can reach the goal, no matter what! You have to have a winner‘s attitude in order to defeat the problems. This is why, you also have to remember that, in a certain way, the others share the same attitude that you have for yourself.

If you are nervous, afraid you might fail, unconvinced with your actions, etc. people around you will perceive you exactly as you perceive yourself. Not in vain do they say that what others think about ourselves, is in fact, the reflection of our actions, which is actually the reflection of our attitudes.
The good thing about attitudes is that one can change or educate them and it has been proven that a good attitude toward everything around us is more efficient than any other drug.

It is free and it can only produce good results.

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Can We Really Decide On Our Own Destiny?

This a question on which men and women have pondered together for centuries. And this is a question which does not carry a straightforward answer. But as we go slightly deep to the surface quite a few explanations do come out.

Fate, destiny, resignation  they all seem to be synonyms up to a certain point. But, what if your whole life you have been a fighter and simply refuse to surrender in a certain situation? Can we rebel against our own destiny? Can we truly decide the way that we are going to follow in life?

These are all questions with no definite or final answer, but nevertheless, everything related to this matter also depends on our determination, our strength to defeat the obstacles we meet before reaching the ultimate aspiration.

A lot of people, who have been remarkably good at doing something during their lives, including business, sports, science etc, confess that fate seemed to be against them at the beginning and even throughout their career.

Most of them lived completely different lives before being successful and they are proud to remember those times.

It was indeed hard, most of them say, but they wanted to get to the top badly; nothing could have held them back from getting where they wanted. They also admit that they never dared to dream they would be so famous or successful in the future.

All these facts make us wonder, whether an apparently pre-established destiny can be modified or completely changed, if we manage to prove we really want something and we are determined to go all the way to get it, no matter what. And if we indeed can change fate, to whom should we demonstrate what we?re capable of?

Could there be a way to modify the data, which composes the famous book of life, just as easy as correcting something on a computer? And if that is true, how do we know that there wasn?t a mistake in the first place, and our determination does not do more than correct it?

Obviously, all that was presented before represents suppositions. Nevertheless, since there are different people who testify that their lives changed, this increases our confidence that we can do it too.

If we can?t control our destiny, we can, at least, contribute to what?s happening to us during our existence.

Maybe, although we were supposed to have a less fortunate destiny, if we treat others the right way, if we are always honest and always mind the truth, somehow bad fate will go around us, showing us that we can make our own destiny.
On the other hand, we cannot help wondering what happens to a person who starts off with a wonderful destiny, but during his or her life commits a series of unpardonable mistakes.

Will that destiny change?

Could it be true that we actually get the destiny we deserve? Persons who suffer tremendously for having lost somebody dear to them or persons born with a disease or a handicap, will answer no! There are a lot of innocent people in pain, so the theory that we get what we deserve is not always accurate.

But what if we have to pay for the errors others committed? Would that make us think deeper before carrying out something we are not really proud of, fearing that some innocent human being will pay, in the future, for our present actions?

There is no doubt that opinions are split when it comes to such a subject. However, meditating on this kind of themes helps us understand ourselves better and, hopefully, gets us closer to appreciating our fate and destiny.

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Business And Brains

Many, prompted no doubt by a feeling of envy, are apt to sneer at the culture and mental ability of the men who have won in business. “Dumb luck,” “mean plodding,” “the robbery of employees,” these and other reasons are assigned by the unreasoning and uncharitable for the prosperity of men who won with fewer advantages than themselves.

Every student of the world’s progress knows that business men have done even more than great authors for the advance of civilization. And we all know, though the world is apt to kneel to military idols, that inventors have done far more than have soldiers for the good of humanity.

The man who succeeds in commerce, trade, or manufactures, thereby shows a foresight and executive ability that would surely have commanded success in any other calling. Men who know books and nothing else are apt to imagine that the merchant, whose life is devoted to facts, figures, and results, must by reason of that be wanting in the higher intellectual faculties. Nor is this belief wholly confined to authors in America. Read more

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Singleness of Purpose-Part II

He thus supported himself, during his college career, entirely by his own earnings as a factory workman, never having received a farthing of help from any other source. “Looking back now,” he honestly said, “at that life of toil, I cannot but feel thankful that it formed such a material part of my early education; and, were it possible, I should like to begin life over again in the same lowly style, and to pass through the same hardy training.”

At length he finished his medical curriculum, wrote his Latin thesis, passed his examinations, and was admitted a licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. At first he thought of going to China, but the war then waging with that country prevented his following out the idea; and having offered his services to the London Missionary Society, he was by them sent out to Africa, which he reached in 1840.

He had intended to proceed to China by his own efforts; and he says the only pang he had in going to Africa at the charge of the London Missionary Society was, because “it was not quite agreeable to one accustomed to worked his own way to become, in a manner, dependent upon others.”

Arrived in Africa, he set to work with great zeal. He could not brook the idea of merely entering upon the labors of others, but cut out a large sphere of independent work, preparing himself for it by undertaking manual labor in building and other handicraft employment, in addition to teaching, which, he says, “made me generally as much exhausted and unfit for study in the evenings as ever I had been when a cotton-spinner.” Read more

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Singleness of Purpose-Part I

We have all heard of the “Jack of all trades, and master of none.” Such men never win, though they may excite the admiration of the curious by their impractical versatility.

In early times, even in the early settlement of our own country, it was necessary for not only men, but women also, to be many-sided in their capacity for work; but the world’s swift advance has made this unnecessary. A farmer can now buy shoes cheaper than he could make them at home, and the farmer’s wife has no longer to learn the art of spinning and weaving.

A French philosopher in speaking of this subject says: “It is well to know something about everything, and everything about something.” That is general information is always useful, but special information is essential to special success.

The field of learning is too vast to be carefully gone over in one lifetime, and the business world is too extensive to permit any man to become acquainted with all its topography. A man may do a number of things fairly well, but he can do only one thing very well.

Often versatility instead of being a blessing is an injury. A few men like Michael Angelo in art, Benjamin Franklin in science and letters, and Peter Cooper in various departments of manufacture have succeeded in everything they undertook, but to hold these up as examples to be followed would be to make a rule of an exception.

Singleness of purpose is one of the prime requisites of success. Fortune is jealous, and refuses to be approached from all sides by the same suitor.

We have known men of marked ability, but want of purpose, who studied for the ministry and failed; who then studied law–and failed. After this they tried medicine and journalism, only to fail in each; whereas, had they stuck resolutely to one thing success would not have been uncertain. Read more

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Cultivate Observation And Judgment-Part II

Hogarth, though a very dull boy at his lessons, took pleasure in making drawings of the letters of the alphabet, and his school exercises were more remarkable for the ornaments with which he embellished them, than for the matter of the exercises themselves. In the latter respect he was beaten by all the blockheads of the school, but in his adornments he stood alone.

His father put him apprentice to a silversmith, where he learnt to draw, and also to engrave spoons and forks with crests and ciphers. From silver-chasing he went on to teach himself engraving on copper, principally griffins and monsters of heraldry, in the course of which practice he became ambitious to delineate the varieties of human character. The singular excellence which he reached in this art was mainly the result of careful observation and study.

He had the gift, which he sedulously cultivated, of committing to memory the precise features of any remarkable face, and afterward reproducing them on paper; but if any singularly fantastic form or odd face came in his way, he would make a sketch of it on the spot upon his thumbnail, and carry it home to expand at his leisure. Everything fantastical and original had a powerful attraction for him, and he wandered into many out-of-the-way places for the purpose of meeting with character.

By this careful storing of his mind, he was afterward enabled to crowd an immense amount of thought and treasure observation into his works. Hence it is that Hogarth’s pictures are so truthful a memorial of the character, the manners, and even the very thoughts of the times in which he live. True painting, he himself observed, can only be learnt in one school, and that is kept by Nature.

But he was not a highly cultivated man, except in his own walk. His school education had been of the slenderest kind, scarcely even perfecting him in the art of spelling; his self-culture did the rest. For a long time he was in very straitened circumstances, but nevertheless worked on with a cheerful heart. Poor though he was, he contrived to live within his small means, and he boasted with becoming pride, that he was “a punctual paymaster.” Read more

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Cultivate Observation And Judgment-Part I

“Look before you leap,” old Commodore Vanderbilt used to say. “I like active men, but I have no use for the fellow who is so much in earnest that he goes off half-cocked.” We all know the danger of a gun that goes off half-cocked, but it is not so apt to bring disaster as is the man who goes off without due preparation.It is fortunate for us that we cannot see into the future, but the Father who has kept from us the gift of prophecy has blessed us with a foresight and judgment that enable us to see pretty accurately what must be the inevitable consequence of certain acts.

The power to observe carefully and judge accurately is a rare gift, but it is one that can be cultivated. The ancients had a motto “Know thyself,” and the great poet Pope tells us that “the proper study of mankind is man.” A knowledge of human nature is invaluable in every life-calling that brings us into contact with our fellows, and this can be gained only by careful observation.

Stephen Girard attributed much of his success to his “ability to read men at a glance.” And so carefully did the great merchant prince, Alexander T, Stewart, study this, that it is said he rarely made a mistake in the character of a man he took into his employ.

Cultivate observation. Oliver Wendell Holmes maintained that all the difference in men, no matter their callings, lay in the difference of their ability to observe and draw proper conclusions from their observations. Professor Huxley says that “observation is the basis of all our scientific knowledge.” And Andrew Carnegie attributes his great success to his cultivation of this faculty.

Every young man, ambitious to win–and what young man worthy the name is not?–should have a standard of excellence for himself, and then he should carefully study and observe the methods of the men who he admires or with whom he is brought into contact. It is the ability to do this that constitutes the difference between the man drudge and the man anxious to assume greater responsibilities by mastering his necessary duties.

In a lecture to young men on this subject, Henry Ward Beecher said:

“The young should begin life with a standard of excellence before them, to which they should readily conform themselves. There should be a fixed determination to make the best of one’s self, in whatever circumstances we may be placed. Let the young man determine that whatever he undertakes he will do well; that he will make himself master of the business upon which he enters, and always prepare himself for advancement by becoming worthy of it. Read more

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Success But Seldom Accidental-Part II

The attention of Dr. Priestley, the discoverer of so many gases, was accidentally drawn to the subject of chemistry through his living in the neighborhood of a brewery. When visiting the place one day, he noted the peculiar appearances attending the extinction of lighted chips in the gas floating over the fermented liquor.

He was forty years old at the time, and knew nothing of chemistry. He consulted books to ascertain the cause, but they told him little, for as yet nothing was known on the subject. Then he began to experiment, with some rude apparatus of his own contrivance. The curious results of his first experiments led to others, which in his hands shortly became the science of pneumatic chemistry.

About the same time, Scheele was obscurely working in the same direction in a remote Swedish village; and he discovered several new gases, with no more effective apparatus at his command than a few apothecaries’ vials and pigs’ bladders.

Sir Humphry Davy, when an apothecary’s apprentice, performed his first experiments with instruments of the rudest description. He extemporized the greater part of them himself, out of the motley materials which chance threw in his way–to pots and pans of the kitchen, and the vials and vessels of his master’s surgery.

It happened that a French ship was wrecked off the Land’s End, and the surgeon escaped, bearing with him his case of instruments, amongst which was an old-fashioned clyster apparatus; this article he presented to Davy, with whom he had become acquainted.

The apothecary’s apprentice received it with great exultation, and forthwith employed it as a part of a pneumatic apparatus which he contrived, afterward using it to perform the duties of an air-pump in one of his experiments on the nature and sources of heat.

In like manner, professor Faraday, Sir Humphry Davy’s scientific successor, made his first experiments in electricity by means of an old bottle, while he was still a working bookbinder. And it is a curious fact, that Faraday was first attracted to the study of chemistry by hearing one of Sir Humphry Davy’s lectures on the subject at the Royal Institution.

A gentleman, who was a member, calling one day at the shop where Faraday was employed in binding books, found him pouring over the article “Electricity,” in an encyclopedia placed in his hands to bind. The gentleman, having made inquiries, found that the young bookbinder was curious about such subjects, and gave him an order of admission to the Royal Institution, where he attended a course of four lectures delivered by Sir Humphry. Read more

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