Focus On The Present
The ability to stay focused has been one of the most priced abilities in becoming successful. Keeping your mind on one single thing for a long time has always been a difficult thing for most people. Many great men have attributed their success to the fact that they're able to stay focused on something for a long time.
There is no way you can achieve anything of substance in life, without giving a lot of your thought process to that thing. If you're someone that is easily distracted, then you have a huge problem. And you have to fight it, if not it may lead to financial squeeze. A way to keep focused at something is meditation. Make sure you add this to your everyday life. But most people underestimate the power of meditation.
At every given time, you may choose to focus on the past, present, or future. It becomes confusing which one is most important among the three. Hence, we'll be discussing each of them and concluding on which one is most important. If you choose to focus on the past, you can benefit from it. You can learn from your past successes and past mistakes. So that you can be able to better your life in the future. But staying focused on the past for a long time is of no good, because the past is behind you.
Staying focused on the present also has it's benefits. In reality, by natural design we're in the present. As I'm putting this article together, it's in my present. By the time you'll be reading this article, it would be in your present. At that given moment, it doesn't matter what your past is, all that really counts is the present. The present is the most important of the three, although it's important to occasionally think about your past and your future. But if you stay focused on your past or future, you'll not get anything well done in the present.
Lastly, focusing on the future. This is also important. You have to spend time thinking about what you want to achieve in the future. But when you do this too much, it becomes day dreaming, because you're not doing anything in the present to make that a reality. In my opinion, focusing on the future is more important than focusing on the past, as you become what you think about. You can't go backwards to your past, but if you create in your mind a desired future for yourself. Then there's a good chance that you'll have a better future.
In conclusion, focusing on the past, present, and future are all important in their own ways. But as always in life, no matter how little, there's a difference in importance. So you should spend lesser time thinking about your past. Just think about, perhaps a lesson from your personal life experience. But don't spend so much time there. Next, spend good time thinking of your future, because you want to create in your mind a lovely future for yourself, and work to achieve it. Most important is your present, because whatever you learn from your past, and whatever dreams you have for your future. If you can't take actions in the present then it will all be for nothing.
Sometimes the problem is not in focusing but in persevering in what you want and doing things so that the path takes you there. We live in a society where it is easy to lose our way in the face of so much stimulus that causes us to deviate from the objective we have set, and therein lies the main problem we must solve. We have to make our present the most important thing we live.
You are very correct, sometimes we dwell in the past and think of things we could have done differently. And also we sometimes dwell in the future and think of things we would do, and neglect on present. Thanks for sharing this awesome article @devotedman