Focus Comes Before Personal
Success
By John E. Hughes
In January I wrote that I hoped the arrival of the
new millennium would be accompanied with a new quality of life more
success, freedom, love, and laughter.
I was correct to be filled with hope and positive expectations.
I made a mistake in assuming there is a correlation between the beginning of a
new year and the beginning of a new life.
SO I am redirecting my focus, not on the calendar, but on
the values that will help create a new quality of life.
The single most important of the elements of
success, which creates change and brings success, is the ability to
sustain the FOCUS in our daily lives.
A dream that is wished
for is very different from a dream that is worked for.
A FOCUS comes BEFORE personal
success.
"People say that getting there
is half the fun. They are wrong. It is ALL the fun."
Look back and:
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Remember how nervous you were
when you first started YOUR karate training.
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Remember the time
you thought you knew a technique or kata
only to discover it needed constant work to keep it
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Remember
training sessions when you thought of quitting. - - but worked
through the self doubt or self-centered ideas to try to find the
beginner’s mind.
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Fondly recall how you felt when your
skills started to improve and you began to see the fruits of
your labor.
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Be grateful that you never quit
pursuing your dream because the journey to success has proven
valuable inwardly and outwardly.
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Be thankful that all of the
struggles, disappointments, small victories, and major accomplishments
have done more than strengthen you and enrich your life.
Follow the wisdom of Coach Landry. Enjoy
your journey to success. Don't make the mistake of thinking you cannot be
content, excited, optimistic, or proud until you have achieved your
desired level of success. Enjoy these attitudes TODAY. Give yourself
permission to stand tall and stay confident. Keep a light heart while
pursuing your dreams. Bring humor to the hassles. Bring faith to the
frustrations. Learn to laugh at life.
One day the moments that now seem so bitter will be your sweetest
memories. You might as well enjoy them now. |
