- by Rasheed Ali
I'm sure you’ve probably heard that lack of focus is the
cause of many great failures and focusing on a task is one of the
steps to success. Yet, as I write this I’m being distracted
and confused by many different things.
In the past I would have run off on a tangent and never finished
this post. Hey I’m not perfect but I’ve learned the
importance of living in the moment and finishing the task at hand.
This may seem overly simplistic, but so many of us have such GREAT
talents, intellect, skills and dreams BUT, we never share them with
the rest of the world.
Why?
Well that’s something only YOU can explain my friend. What
prevents you from sticking to your goals and becoming a success
story?
As an example here’s what happened to me just this week.
I’m writing my book, “The One Word That Can
Change Your Life and Make You Outrageously Successful”
and ideas are just flowing in like a river in the rain, when suddenly
I get a phone call from one of my best friends who has a HUGE opportunity
to distribute a great product here in New York City! Of course,
I shouldn’t have picked up the phone.
Now the income potential is pretty good but, I’m no distributor.
I told him that I was pretty focused on what I’m doing right
now and don’t want to do something else right now. Well of
course like most friends do, he told me how important my help was
and that he really needed it.
I’m not a bad guy BUT, I’m not like I was. In the past
I would have jumped on this and forgot about what I was doing AND
do it for FREE! Well I’m not that guy any more, so here’s
what I did.
I got off the phone and finished the part of the book I was working
on.
Later on I got another phone call from him and I made an agreement
to make some calls to a few people to give him some major leads,
he would do the rest of the work from there and split the profits
with me. That’s it. I could not dedicate my time to something
other than what I was focused on.
I made the calls the next day as promised.
What I learned is that you can’t be everything to everyone
and trying to do so, will cause you more pain than pleasure. The
next time something like this happens to you, remember that. Think
about YOU! Focus on YOU and your goal or task and you will uncover
one of the great secrets of success.
You can’t turn right or left if your destination
is in front of you!
Think about this:
A man who was really constipated AND couldn't sleep had
a choice of Powerful Sleeping Pills or a Powerful Laxative.
He decided to take BOTH!
Hmmmm????? :-P
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