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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How to Use Self-Development Exercises To Achieve Success

Everyone wants to be as successful as they can be both in their professional and personal lives. How to achieve those lofty goals, however, is the subject of some debate. One of the proven methods for achieving personal growth and career success is the use of various self-development exercises.

There are a number of different self-development methods around, and which one works best will depend on a number of factors, such as your own personality, your own strengths and of course your personal and professional development goals. Read more

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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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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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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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Success But Seldom Accidental-Part I

A man may leap into sudden fortune at a bound, and without effort or foresight, but it is doubtful if any great permanent success ever was the outcome of blind chance.The old adage, “Trust to luck,” like many other adages that time has kept in unmerited circulation, is a bad one. The man who trusts to luck for his clothing is apt to wear rags, and he who depends on it for food is sure to go hungry.

We hear a great deal about the wonderful things that have been done by chance, but we seldom take the time to examine them. We read that sir Isaac Newton, sitting in his garden one day, “Chanced to see an apple fall to the ground,” and this set him to thinking, and he discovered the laws of gravitation. New, ever since the first apple fell from the first tree in Eden, men have been watching that very commonplace occurrence.

We might extend the field so as to embrace oranges, coconuts and all the fruits and nuts which, in every land and through all the long centuries of man’s existence, have been falling to the ground–not by chance, however, yet they set no men to thinking, simply because not one of the millions of men who “chanced” to see the incident, “chanced” to have the reasoning powers of the great English scientist.

If the apple, instead of falling to the ground, had shot up, without visible cause, to the sky, then the dullest observer would have wondered, even if he did not attempt to find an explanation. The falling of the apple in Newton’s garden was not a chance, but an ordinary incident, which was made much of in the mind of an extraordinary man.

Watt “chanced” to see the lid of the kettle in his mother’s kitchen lifted by the steam within, and this incident we are asked to believe was the origin of the engine invented by that great man. If no one else had ever witnessed a like phenomenon, then we might give some consideration to the element of chance. It was in the brain of Watt, and not in the lifting of the kettle lid, that the steam engine was born. There are no accidents in the progress of science.

In the same way, we are asked to believe that Galileo discovered the telescope, Whitney the cotton gin, and Howe the sewing machine. But there have been some curious cases of chance fortune. A man out hunting in California made a mis-step and was plunged into a deep gulch in the Sierra Nevada. His gun was broken and he was sorely bruised, but he was more that repaid for the accident by the discovery of a rich gold mine at the bottom.

What would you think of the man, who, because of this, should shoulder a gun and go into the mountains, hoping to be precipitated into a gulch full of gold. If he started out for this purpose, of course, the element of chance would be eliminated, and yet that man would show just as much good sense as do the thousands who go through life–trusting to luck, and hoping for a miracle that never comes. Read more

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Some Of Labors Compensations

Although it is better for every young man, if possible, to adhere to one thing, yet, as we shall see when we come to treat of the life of that remarkable man Peter Cooper, change does not necessarily mean vacillation. For the mere sake of consistency a man would be foolish who neglected a good chance to succeed in another field. Edison started life as a newsboy, but it would be folly to say that he should have stuck to that very respectable, but not usually lucrative occupation.

Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was an artist till middle life. Alexander T. Stewart and James Gordon Bennett, the one a most successful journalist, and the other the greatest merchantt of his day, began life as school-teachers. And so we might continue the list; but even these examples do not warrant the belief that a change of calling is necessary to success, but rather that the change may increase the chances. As a rule, however, the changes have been forced by unforeseen circumstances, of which these strong men were quick to see the advantages.

In beginning the life journey, as in starting out on a day’s journey, it is of great importance to have a destination in view. In every effort there should be kept in mind the end to be attained–an ideal to achieve which every faculty must be enlisted.

Men whose lives have been eminently successful tell us that their greatest reward was not found in the accomplishment of their life purpose, but in the slow, but certain advance made from day to day.

The joy of travel does not lie in reaching the destination, but in the companions met with on the journey, the changing scenery through which the traveler passes, and even the inconveniences that break up the monotony of the ordinary routine life. It is so with our life- work. The cradle and the grave mark the beginning and the end of the journey, but the joy of living lies in the varied incident and effort to be met with between the two.

It is well for us that this is so; well for us that we do not have to wait for the reward till the end comes.

We may, as in the cases named, change our means of travel, but so long as success is our purpose, it matters not so much what variation we may make in the route, when we seek to attain it.

The old-fashioned country school debating societies had one subject that never lost its popularity, and on which the rural orators exhausted their eloquence and ingenuity: “Resolved, that there is more happiness in participation than in anticipation.” We doubt if any debating society ever settled the question, in a way that would be acceptable to all. As a rule the younger people decided, irrespective of the argument, that participation was the most desirable; but the older people wisely shook their heads and took the other side of the case.

Often when the end has been gained, it has been discovered that the reward was not worth the effort, and that the full compensation was gained in the peace, the regular habits, the health, and the sense of duty well-performed which kept up the hope and the strength during the long years of toil. Read more

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Selecting A Calling

In reading the lives of great men, one is struck with a very important fact: that their success has been won in callings for which in early manhood they had no particular liking. Necessity or chance has, in many cases, decided what their life-work should be. But even where the employment was at first uncongenial, a strict sense of duty and a strong determination to master the difficult and to like the disagreeable, conquered in the end.

In these days of fierce competition, no matter how ardent the desire for fame, he is a dreamer who loses sight of the monetary returns of his life-efforts.

There have been a few men whose wants were simple, and these wants guarded against by a certain official income, who could afford to ignore gain and to work for the truths of science or the good of humanity. The great English chemist Faraday was of this class. Once asked by a friend why he did not use his great abilities and advantages to accumulate a fortune, he said: “My dear fellow, I haven’t time to give to money making.”

It is, perhaps, to be regretted that in nearly every case the efforts of to-day, whether in commerce, trade, or science, have for their purpose the making of fortunes. Nor should this spirit be condemned, for fortune in the hands of the right men is a blessing to the world and particularly to those who are more improvident.

Peter Cooper, Stephen Girard, George Peabody, and many other eminent Americans who made their way to great wealth from comparative poverty, used that wealth to enable young men, starting life as they did, to achieve the same success without having to encounter the same obstacles.

It is a well-known fact that boys who live near the sea have an intense yearning to become sailors. Every healthy boy has a longing to be a soldier, and he takes the greatest delight in toy military weapons.

Our ideals for living, particularly when they are the creations of a youthful imagination, are but seldom safe guides for our mature years. The fairy stories that delighted our childhood and the romances that fired our youth, are found but poor guides to success, when the great life-battle is on us. Read more

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