Motivation Monday: Focus

Monday Motivation: Focus

Consistency with our assignments produces greatness. Consistency has its challenges though. These challenges are enormous. The essence of these challenges are sent to knock us off our consistency and get us to waver like the waves of the sea. When they succeed in shaking us off the schedules and routines of our assignments, we lose the stride of productivity and reputation and the outcomes is that we remain babies where we should have matured.

Consistency brings growth and development. We mature on the job and gather relevant experiences for innovativeness and problem solving. Consistency makes you a reference point and gives you a consultancy reputation to give counsel and mentorship to new entrants.

But the power behind consistency is focus. Focus is having concentration on vision. Setting one's eyes as a flint. The discovery of vision must come with blindness. Every good eye has a blind spot. You can't be seeing everything and be claiming having a vision. You have to see just the things you should see and be blind to whatever isn't on your vision pathway. Jack of all trades is often a master of none.


Discovering purpose is discovering who you are and the fruit expected of you by the Planter. By your fruit people will know you, but to bear the fruit, you must know who you are so as to know which fruit to process and to bring forth.

When you discover yourself and your purpose and assignment, and you know what input you must do to fulfil it, you have gotten a job of purpose you will have to be consistent with without distraction to make a success of.

There are distractions we must avoid as much as possible. For instance, we have multi talented people, and even those who aren't so talented can still develop skills beyond their basic potentials and that can constitute distractions. A footballer, who can also play music and dance, a sprinter who can also play football, a footballer who can also play golf, an actor who can also fly a plane etc...if you find yourself in such a situation, you must discover what your core is, in order to be able to manage things. Otherwise, failure may come from both. Trying to catch two birds same time may make one catch none.

There is also the distraction of pleasure. You shouldn't feel pain or boredom until you've accomplished your assignment, even if both are present. Of course, work may be boring and frustrating a times, the challenges of accomplishment are normal. That's what is called work, navigating around the troubled sea of purpose to achieve vision is work. Finding and working out solutions to challenges of change is what we are called to do. Seeking to relax when the job is yet to be done is a distraction. Entertainment can be a distraction. Holidays come only after work, you don't leave a mountain to climb ahead of you to go resting. Beware of the distraction of entertainment and ease. Life's journey doesn't always go through the path of least resistance, beware of seeking ease when you should be seeking solutions and accomplishments. It'll be a distraction.

Another kind of distraction is the job distraction. Sometimes we want to start working when we should be training. We are too eager to hit the road. Too eager to start earning and being on our own when we are yet to get all what we'll need for the journey. Be careful.

There is the distraction of leaving your core job to doing other people's jobs. With the passion of expressing your potentials, you are ready to do anything even if for free while leaving your own vineyard. Be careful. There must be a thorough balance in how you deal out help. Find a sound footing, put on your own safety gadgets before helping another person. When you are sure you have a solid footing, then you SHOULD stretch a hand to help someone too to safety. It doesn't mean you will have to be clean safe, to be able to help, beware also of selfishness but you need to be sure that the help you render won't undermine the delivery of what you were sent to deliver.

Without focus and concentration even a laser beam won't have an effect. Without focus, the strongest saw won't cut through, without focus a nail won't drive into the wood, without concentration the energy of the sun won't reach the earth. Without concentration you'll spread yourself too thin without enough depth to make any lasting impact.

Let nothing take the concentration of your effort away to mundane things that have no lasting impact. Discover your assignment and sit down to bring it to fruition, don't chase shadows, go for the core. Don't use packaging to cover for rottenness, don't be a whitewashed sepulchre only filled with dead bones. Focus on what's important and bear the fruits you were planted to bring forth. It takes focus to make an impact that will create effective change. Concentrate and a fire will be kindled that'll be hard to quench!

Good morning to you, have a lovely week.
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