People are naturally attracted to intense focus. That’s why we admire celebrities, musicians, artists, and entrepreneurs. They’ve mastered something most of us struggle with: they’ve found their zone of genius.
On the surface, it might appear that we love celebrity because of the attention celebrities receive. But this too is just focus-envy. We want to be the center of focus. Yet gaining others’ attention requires that you showcase your own form of immense focus first.
Overnight success is rarely that. It’s a culmination of years and years of intense focus that comes to a point in a seemingly fast period of time.
Jack of All Trades, Master of Nothing
Focus is something I’ve always struggled with. Those who know me often have trouble defining exactly what it is I do. I’ve held many titles over the years. I’m the classic example of jack of all trades, master of nothing.
Even with this blog, I’ve struggled with focusing on an end goal. Whimsical fancy is a freeing thing until you realize it’s preventing you from finding your zone of genius.
Genius is just focusing on the same thing exclusively for an extended period of time. Without focus, you have no genius.
Focus as Spiritual Practice
All religions and practices are based around the idea of focus. Meditation is anti-focus, focusing inward into infinity. Prayer is focus upon that which is wanted or a focus on gratitude. Affirmations serve the same purpose. Mantras are merely devices for focus.
The first thing you must do is decide what you wish to focus upon. Until there’s an object of focus, it’s very difficult to line up energy to make significant progress.
The Defense Mechanism
Too often, I’ve found myself wanting something very broad without allowing any fine-tuning of the desire. This, I believe, is a defense mechanism many of us carry around subconsciously.
If we don’t define what we really want, then we don’t have to suffer the failure should we not achieve it in any grand fashion.
And so, without a real focus, we might be content. But we never experience the excitement, thrill, and exhilaration that comes with the journey of attempting something and succeeding. Or the intense learning and expansion that comes with failure.
Without focus, we never make real progress.
A Living Meditation
I’ve experimented with using physical activities as living meditations to remind myself of the power of focus. With each focused action, I hold the intention that my efforts will reach those who need my assistance and those who can further assist me.
People are drawn to my focus. Many conversations have started without my doing anything but focusing intently, waiting for people to ask me about what I’m doing.
Breaking from the Pack
We’re quick to cut corners or find the easy way out. But we might be doing ourselves a disservice.
Intense focus allows the universal energies to rally up behind your thoughts and ideas. It effortlessly draws to you the people that can exponentially move you in the direction of your desires.
We look at the way things have been done in the past and mimic them to save time and effort. If we would lend our focus more often to forming our own creative solutions, we might find that we start to break away from the pack and move closer to true innovation.
Focus doesn’t mean doing something the way someone else has done it over and over until you’re as good as them. When you focus on the way you want to do it, regardless of what has worked in the past, things just start to fall into place.
Focus Creates Realities
I’ve seen people who do nothing but stack rocks in public places earn significant income. People are drawn to their focus, because deep down, we all wish we could focus so intensely.
Focus allows us to send ourselves hypnotic suggestions that alter our beliefs to fall in line with our desires.
The only goal for this lifetime, or any other, is to master the art of focus. When you learn to focus, the world literally begins to revolve around you.
Focus is that which creates realities.
What are you focusing on?
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