What Are You Really Focusing On?
What Are You Really Focusing On?
There is a fire in all of us and there always has been. Becoming too fixated on our failures can make it hard to find that fire or even believe that a fire exists but it does. In order to find that fire again, you must first re-shift that focus.
Listen to your inner needle
There’s an inner needle within all of us, which we may either not pay much attention to.
There’s much truth to the saying, “you need to take care of yourself before you can take care of others,” but here’s the irony – sometimes the motivation lies behind the person you are motivated by.
Whether it be your hard-working mom who worked two jobs to put food on the table for you while you were growing up, the restaurant busboy who saves his tips in order to put himself through flight school, or your boss who navigates through million-dollar contracts with confidence and character, there is a particular reason why that specific person moves that needle within you – it’s an admired quality they carry.
Change your focus
Now it’s time to check in and ask yourself, what are you really focusing on?
- Is it a number of missed opportunities you wished you had taken?
- Is it a string of moments and events that didn’t bring you happiness?
- Is it a project that resulted in a way you didn’t expect after putting in many dedicated hours and hard work?
Sometimes, we get caught up in this cycle of how-to rather than the do’s – which is more of a distraction than a motivation.
Other times, we don’t even notice how much focus we’re putting into one particular part of our journey or project without taking a few steps back to see the overall picture.
Most times, we focus on our failures and why we haven’t reached that goal versus looking at all the baby steps that matter – and they matter.
As the saying goes, “one step forward, two steps back.” Life’s unforeseen and even predicted circumstances will always put you two steps back. It isn’t to discourage you on your journey, but instead is giving you an opportunity to take a look at how far you have come and to admire how much more you have to go.