TO FINISH THE RACE, STAY ON THE TRACK.

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Opportunity is all around you. What matters is where you put your focus. Ask yourself this question every day: "where should my focus be? " Where you focus your attention, you create strength and momentum.
These are the characteristics of momentum:
(1) it is single-minded;
(2) it is unwavering in the pursuit of a goal;
(3) it has passion which knows no limits;
(4) it demands a concentrated intensity and a definite sense of destiny; and most of all,
(5) it has a boundless vision and commitment to excellence.

Concentration is the key that opens the door to accomplishment. "the first law of success... is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left" (William Mathews).
The most successful people have always been those of concentration, who have struck their blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. They are of one specific idea, and steady aim, a single and concentrated purpose. Become an authority on something.

There is a great distance between most people's dreams and the results they achieve. It is due to the difference in their commitment to bring together all the options of their ability and to focus them upon one point.
There are two quick ways to disaster: taking nobody's advice and taking everybody's advice. Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best. A. P. Goethe said that, in order to succeed, you must know three things:
"(1) what to eliminate;
(2) what to preserve;
(3) when to say no, for developing the power to say no gives us the capacity to say yes."
We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them. What an immense power you will have over your voice, your dress, your very motion change and improve when you begin to live for a reason.

Don't be a person who is uncertain about the future and hazy about the present. Stay in the groove without making it a rut. Make something your specialty. You cannot find until you define. To finish the race, stay on the track.
I am astonished at the aimlessness of most people's lives. As a result of a lack of focus, they delegate the direction of their lives to others. Don't live your life like that. Instead, "learn to define yourself, to content yourself with some specific thing and some definite work; dare to be what you really are, and to learn to accept with good grace all that you are not" (Anonymous).