Keep Your Eye On The Ball

 

WHETHER you're into sports, in business OR even in your personal life, allow me to piggy-back on this age-old quote:  KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL.  Let's start with our careers.  When we were like the upstarts @ the workplace, FUN would have prevailed on us many times [and that's just fine] BUT sometimes, things get stretched to the extent that our eyes get caught up with another thing other than the ball WHICH we need to focus on, UNTIL we lose sight of the ball.  Guess WHAT happens WHEN you lose sight of the ball📗📙📘

From our career, let's sneak into our health.  WHEN we start reaping the initial FRUITS OF LABOR, it's fine we reward ourselves left and right BUT sometimes, WHAT gets sorely missed [OR I'll bluntly say IGNORED] is our health.  Unlimited booze, chain-smoking, frequent late nights and long-night sorties even on a Monday OR Tuesday [WHO says we should only sing TGIF during Fridays?].  Count years OR to be realistic even a decade OR two after, let us hope that that kind of a 'high risk' lifestyle DIDN'T take its toll on your health?  I really pray and hope so BUT I've been through tons and tons of narratives WHERE, many years after, we would be saddened with very bleak updates with regard deteriorating health conditions of people WHO we know up close through the years.  Question is:  Can we still arrest that alarming skid?  Absolutely can BUT if at all, we got to start it early in the game and for the duration of the game we're playing, KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL because if you breach and miss that ball, you might miss the ballgame itself💚💛💜

Business are NOT different from our health and our career.  Businesses, WHETHER we're talking of small-scale endeavors OR the big-time ones, FOCUS is required and that is needed from the time you kickstart your bright and brainy idea until you kickoff that business and for the duration of it, KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL, no exception💥💥💥

Let's swing over to relationships.  I've witnessed first-hand the known diasporas of people working 10,000 miles away from their home country, to earn a living, to support his family and so on.  And I'd say roughly 95% of those very legitimate purposes are achieved.  Fast-forward 10 to 20 years later, can you guess how did things develop and evolve after the dutiful breadwinner steadfastly ensured attending to all his 'financial commitments' to his family?  Many families have been negatively impacted by these labor diasporas because WHAT's missed there is the fact that if the breadwinner is 10,000 miles, there is a good chance he CAN'T KEEP HIS EYE ON THE BALL [even these days with all the Zoom and MS Teams] and before the breadwinner finds out the end-result, the kids he raised [albeit remotely] have grown up off-track, misguided at least😡😡😡

Our takeaway:  Anywhere and everywhere, there is always the BALL we need to KEEP AN EYE.  No one is shielded OR exempted from this imperative.  If we will compile all the travails and tribulations at least amongst people we know, I am very confident that we will secure an uncontestable consensus that we all need to KEEP AN EYE ON THE BALL for the duration of the ballgame we are checked in [UNLESS we want to get derailed OR off-tracked in our journey?  It's NOT too much to ask dude, for us to KEEP AN EYE ON THE BALL, right???