FOCUS: A CRITERION TO SUCCESS

Goals and dreams are the factors that separate the successful and the unsuccessful people. If your life has no destination, you'll always settle in mediocrity, wandering around with frustration.

Yes, it's good to have big dreams. In fact, I always tell myself to make my dreams so huge that it'll scare sleep away. But the bitter fact is, even with a dream as huge as my head and a goal so detailed and sure, if you're not FOCUSED, you can never achieve your desired goal.

FOCUS is the main ingredient to success. Focus is what makes you less conscious of the distractions around you. It scares aware doubts. Focus entertains fresh inspirations.

Focusing, being so important and vital is practically difficult for some set of persons. This is not lack of ambition but lack of direction. When you don't know what to focus on, when you're not aware of the consequences of not succeeding, it becomes a problem to remain determined. This only means that someone without a vision has nothing to focus on.

Take football as an example, if there's no goal post, there'll be no driving force, there'll be nothing to look forward to. Another example is school exams. Once you take off exams as part of the academic process, the driving force to read dies away because there'll be nothing to look forward to.

All the above boils down to the fact that FOCUS is one of the criteria to SUCCESS. The question now is, how can I be focused?

PLAN: First of all, you must create a blueprint of what you really want. Write down a detailed plan of all you want for yourself and how you wish to execute them.

PRIORITIZE: Yes I know we all want to become Mr. President, the boss of our own and also the CEO of a big company. To be very realistic, it doesn't just come to us, it takes a lot of planning, focus and self discipline. Always try to evaluate when to and when not to. Put the important things in front, things that'll yield return and finance your "big picture" project.

SET A TARGET AND REWARD YOURSELF WHEN YOU MEET UP: Always challenge yourself with targets. Also, don't forget to appreciate yourself with good things when you meet up your target.

With the above, you can arrange your life and make it worth living. But that doesn't guarantee FOCUS. Yes, it doesn't. You can have a plan and yet not be focused.

How?

Well, there's this friendly enemy called DISTRACTION. It creeps in when you finally start something serious and it takes huge self discipline to overcome distractions. Lack of commitment can also crush your focus and when that happens, discouragement takes charge.

So in a nutshell. Know where you're going, plan out how to get there and do all it takes to get there

I love you all, Princeton!