You Must Focus!

Happy Monday!  My kids all visited yesterday...we had a great time...nothing like grown kids! 

  

When they were growing up, I used to "mess with their minds" with a balloon and a needle.  I would slowly push the needle in and pull it out...

 

The balloon would not pop!

 

I would then give them the needle and they would insert it with fear and shout with glee as their attempt to do what I just did failed....

 

POP!

 

"How did you do it?" they asked full of awe and wonder.

 

"You must foooocuuusss!" 

 

Ok, there was more hocus pocus than focus, but with great showmanship and magicians patter, I would captivate my young audience.  They would stare at the balloon, say the magic word of "Focus" and continue to try...in spite of the eminent explosion.

 

In sales and life the power of focus is amazing.  Magic can be accomplished when you are lasered in on your Objectives, Strategies and Tactics.  

 

Many people start strong but lose focus and quit, but people of focus are determined to see it through till the end.

 

What is the difference?

 

The difference is not because they don't want to succeed, they just lack what is today's topic - Focus. More commonly known as Discipline.

 

What is discipline?

 

Traditionally, discipline has a negative connotation. Say the word discipline to a child and they will say "when daddy spanks me".

 

Even when discipline is engaged to reach a favorable outcome, it still has a twinge of negativism. It speaks of arduous labor that we detest but that we must do with dogged persistance to accomplish a desired goal.

 

Let's evolve our vocabulary and meaning of discipline.

 

I want you to see discipline as the willing servant that creates a focus on what we want, what it takes to get there, and a commitment to see it through to the end. Here is my definition of discipline:

 

"Doing what it takes, to get what you want...

as long as it takes, until you get what you want!"

 

Do you know what it takes to get what you want?

 

Most likely you do...   

 

Are you doing it? 

Keep doing it until you get what you want...

If not...start doing it today (Happy Monday!)...and keep doing it until you get what you want! 

 

When it comes to getting what you want the real magic is in focus...discipline...

 

and a perfectly placed piece of tape on the balloon...and

 

You Must Fooocccuuusss!

 

Until tomorrow, I wish you Money, Power, Success!