Focus has and always will be a large part of achieving any goal. It is a vital factor in achieving success, because without it you are likely to end up very, very far from your intended destination. So I'd like to offer a new perspective on what focus really is.

Focus On The End Result

Every great achiever has also told us to stay focused on the prize, or end result. People like Henry Ford and Martin Luther King have regulary quoted the power of focus, even when you can't see the path forward. But what is focus in and of itself? What does it really mean to be focused? Does it mean you think about the one & only result you want? Does it mean you envision one possible outcome regardless of the things that stand in your way? Yes. Essentially this is what focus is.

But I want to elaborate a little further.

I read a great book titled Why We Want You To Be Rich by Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, which I highly recommend, and in the book they use an acronym to explain focus.

F - Follow

O - One

C - Course

U - Until

S - Successfull

If you think about this acronym, Follow One Course Until Successful, you see that it clearly defines focus in a simple manner. When you follow one course until successfull, you are giving yourself a destination and a course to get there.

Imagine You Are A Train
Your mind is now a train. The train track is your plan of action to get from where you are to where you want to be. There is no going off the track, there is only foward or backward. And if you want to reach the final result, you keep moving forward on the track. Occassionaly the train will slow down (due to setbacks or failures) but if you keep up your momentum, the train will keep going forward. And once you build up enough momentum going forward, you begin to blast through anything your way. Eventually the momentum you built up will take you to your final destination. This is the power of focus, or following one course until successful.

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