KEEP THE FOCUS

 

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

An intelligent man keeping the focus /Photo Courtesy / Dziana Hasanbekava

Let’s Just Keep Building

This is important. Do not allow anyone or anything to distract you. There is no time for distractions. Work must continue whether conditions are in your favor or not. If the objective was to rebuild. Continue rebuilding even when you run out of resources. Keep the focus. Circumstances will emerge whose aim is to bring disruption. The disruption wants you to shift your attention. Its purpose is to make you start seeing what you don’t have. Circumstances want you to see limitations. So that it can suggest that whatever you are attempting to do will not work. Don’t falter.  Don’t bow to failure. Do not accept limitations. You are not limited. You might be going through a rough season. But that does not mean you are defeated. You are capable. Don’t listen to that little noisy voice. Discomforts might be there. You might not be where you envisioned.

But that does not mean you abandon the mission. Stick with what you started. You wanted to arrive somewhere. You were going somewhere. You were doing something. Keep walking. Keep doing. Don’t stop when it gets difficult. Don’t stop building because someone said it will not work. Tune the noise out. Remove distractions. Focus. And while you focus. You will encounter many moments where nothing will seem to work. There will be times when nothing will make sense. Nothing will pan out according to your expectations. And the journey will still be long. There will be so much that need to be fixed. And you will be tired. This is when that little voice will get louder. It will tell you that you are losing. That maybe, nothing will ever be normal again. You will not get back what you lost.

And you will actually see what the noisy voice is referring to. There will be nothing encouraging taking place around you. You would have done a lot of things. However, those efforts will look like nothing. It will seem like you are making one step forward. And three steps backward. There will be no progress. The things, which you thought could have been fixed by now. Would still be glaring at you. The turn of events will make you sad. You will be discouraged. Yet, moments like this are the most powerful moments. If you harness them and focus. If you refuse to listen to negative voices. If you get yourself out of wrong environments. If you move away from wrong people. And focus on the mission. You will still make progress. Progress might not occur as you envisioned. But it will still happen. Something good will happen.

Stand Long Enough

A focused man figuring out the problem /Photo / Snapwire

This will only happen if you stand long enough. If you pray long enough. If you fight long enough. If you trust one more time. And defy all circumstances. And people who said that you have hit a dead end. Those people will reach such conclusions based on what is in front of them. They will see scarcity. Lack of fruits on a tree. And the mere fact that you are feeding from their palms. The fact that you need their support. They will write you off. And assertively tell you that you are going nowhere. They will maximize that opportunity. And tell you everything that is in their mind. Whatever will come out of their mouths will not give you hope. Their accounts will be agreeing with the circumstances. After all, you are stuck here. And there seems to be nothing happening. They will use that little progress and predict your end.

Do not listen to them. Trust yourself. Keep the focus. Look forward. Nothing good might appear in front of you. However, don’t be fooled. Keep building. Stick with your original plan. You were going somewhere. Focus on arriving at your desired destination. Things might not be working in your favor. Don’t focus on what is not working. Pay attention on what you can do in that moment. To make things that are not working start working. There is always something that you can do. Find that something. If doing that difficult thing is the only thing that you can do now. Focus on that one. Even when that thing is standing on the little energy left in you. Tap on that little energy. And do something. This is your quest. Not other people’s. You are the only one, who knows what it means to complete the journey. Look at the destination.

Answer The Call

A beautiful woman trying to focus / Photo Coutesy / Andrea Piacquadio

Don’t let detours on the way stop you. If your life is calling you one more time to stand up and show your strength. Don’t be lazy. Get up and fight for the sake of your life. Fight for your dignity. Defend your trust in something. Answer the call even when you are tired. Arise even when you have run out of resources. Keep moving even when nothing promising is ahead of you. As long as your life needs you. Don’t settle. Do not allow circumstances prevent you from moving. Don’t fail yourself by giving up. There is no future for faint-hearted people. Don’t look down because nothing is working in your favor. Don’t throw up your hands and stop. Stand in that nothingness. And declare that everything will work. Moments like these require your voice. When everything seems to work against you. Say something positive. Speak life to empty situations.    

Talk to that situation. Tell it to work. Other people might have said what they have said. But the buck stops with you. Watch your mind. Protect it from negativity. Let strength to move forward come from inside. Let discouragement be outside not inside. Tell the stubborn circumstance that you are moving forward no matter what. Speak to disruption and distraction. And let them know that your eyes are fixed to the future. So it does not matter what is there. And what is missing. Either way. The journey will continue. You will rebuild what is broken. You will fight for your recovery. You will go after what has been stolen from you. You will fight for your normal life. Circumstances will not determine how you live your life. You are the head in this matter. And you will exercise your leadership. And order new things into your life.

When you keep the focus. It means you operate with wisdom. Not the physical things around you. Your path might be filled with enough roadblocks. But who told you there is no other way? Since when, did discomfort kill someone? You keep the focus. Put your eyes where it matters. Ensure that your attention is only on things that matter. The noise will get louder as you go. Laughter will increase. However, don’t abandon the mission because someone laughed at you. Don’t cry because 20 people gathered to talk about you.

Don’t stop because you lost the way. Fix your eyes on something valuable. And keep your eyes there until you achieve your goal. Don’t leave until you fix all the broken things in your life. At the end, what will matter is not how many people laughed. At the end, it will be your endurance. What will matter is how hard you fought. At the end. It will be your courage. Not the number of people who mocked you. Always remember that. Have that knowledge in the beginning. And keep the wisdom to the end. That is what your life needs. Wisdom. Forget about everything else. But wisdom. Find it. Because it is wisdom that differentiates people. Fools see limitations. But wisdom sees a future in a dark moment. Move forward no matter how darker it gets.