What One Goal At A Time Means After All

 

WHO has more than 1 goal in life?  Me, moi, mich, yo!  Of course, that was a giveaway question because the fact is, everyone of us could have tons of goals and that's the best thing in life, to have as much goals as possible.  BUT are you aware of the statistical data showing that there is a huge plurality of results in those goal-settings WHICH ended up as LESS THAN just being called a SUCCESS?  NOT too fast, if there are tons of failures in our life, more often, it is NOT because we are exerting less efforts, NO, NOT AT ALL📗📙📘

For anyone WHO has ever achieved the various levels of greatness at anything must have learned by now that mastery often comes only through that intense focus, repetition and even obsession about a particular subject for an extended period of time.  HOWEVER, by default, many of us get so perpetually distracted by all the various forms and shapes of opportunities💚💛💜

Many times I heard this practical advice:  Let's stop FOCUS-hopping and instead become a master at something [BUT take it, ONE THING AT A TIME].  WHEN I started my technology career as an entry-level green-horn @Shell, I realized that I almost DIDN'T know anything @ workplace. In fact, in the first 3 to 6 months in my job role, I spent roughly 50% of my time @ IBM trainings.  Then everything seemed to be spinning within my head as I was literally overwhelmed with so many things to learn.  At that point, I pulled the brakes and I told myself, I'll do a HARD RESET and set for my Goal #1.  Goal #2?  I'll set that close to the heels after achieving Goal #1.  WHEN I completed my very first Cobol program, I then set Assembler programming as my Goal #2 and luckily, I was spot on in setting those goals in serial mode [instead of taking up all goals in parallel, WHICH I realized is really next to impossible💥💥💥

So, WHAT insights are worth sharing here?  I'd like to zero-in on the 5-letter word spelled F-O-C-U-S.  Excellence OR even being near OR just great at something more often requires FOCUS  and that can mean saying NO to everything else.  You may find that most people in your life will have an opinion about the decision to say NO.  In fact, I always opine [even now] that if you step into a room with 10 people, expect 10 opinions [and many are unsolicited at that]😡😡😡

Our takeaway:  For us to reinforce our FOCUS, we got to reinforce multiple times our courage [I call it GUMPTION] to say NO to all the possible distractions and even opinions and requests coming from different directions.  To quote Albert Einstein, ONLY ONE WHO DEVOTES HIMSELF TO A CAUSE WITH HIS WHOLE STRENGTH AND SOUL CAN BE A TRUE MASTER.  Well said dude!!!