What’s Your Focus?

January 18th, 2009          Email This Post       

I know I have the opposite problem of many people: I want to work on too many things at once. I get curious very easily and want improvements to happen quickly. (Hmm, that’s not so odd after all.)

However, it just doesn’t work. If you have a short burst of energy and make loads of decisions and plan out how you want things to be… you rarely carry through on any of them. In fact, there is an inverse proportion: the more things you focus on, the less you accomplish.

The question to answer is – what are you currently working on?

You may have a large list of things to work on – improving your davening, your learning, diet, productivity, spending time with your family, etc. Notice how you have tried to work on them all, and made little (if any) improvement – because you were focusing on them all! 

Unfortunately, you just can’t focus on too many things at once. We tend to get sucked into the way things are and changing them takes time – but worse, it takes attention. When you try to move your attention to 5 new things… it just doesn’t work – tafasta merubah lo tafasta – if you grab too much, you end up with nothing.

So choose the focus that would make the biggest difference or is the most pressing – and throw yourself into it.

Correct, you need to do this horrible thing that signifies some level of maturity – saying yes to one thing, to the exclusion of others. But that’s better than saying no to everything!

Please share your reaction – and your current focus, if you would like to share – in the forums. I would love to hear from you!

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