May I Have My Attention, Please?
It's a five-letter, two-syllable word and it's so quick to fly out of mind. Only a five-letter, two-syllable word that can make or break us, that can be the difference between a banner day and a knee-scraper. If you think the word I'm thinking is "focus", you're right.
Sometimes I wonder if we don't try so hard to stay so focused that we overload our brains and force them to vacate the premises. You've had the experience, I'm sure. It happened to me this morning. I was writing and about three sentences into a paragraph I had no idea what I was doing. During the few seconds It took for me to gather my thoughts again, I felt like I'd been suddenly put back into my body, but had no recollection of where I'd been.
Would you call it a lack of focus? Maybe. But I tend to like my "overload" theory. We drive ourselves to push ourselves to the limit every day. If we get to the limit comfortably for a while, we push further and further. It's as if we thrive on biting off more than we can chew and, when we can't swallow it, are afraid to spit it out.
For myself, I know I need to start working smarter. I'm getting someplace, but I'm spending too much energy on the trip. I believe I'm not alone with this. I believe we're all trying so hard to realize our goals, we focus too much on the irrelevant and not enough on the important.
Maybe it's time to jump back and regroup and focus on that for a while.
Peace
Sometimes I wonder if we don't try so hard to stay so focused that we overload our brains and force them to vacate the premises. You've had the experience, I'm sure. It happened to me this morning. I was writing and about three sentences into a paragraph I had no idea what I was doing. During the few seconds It took for me to gather my thoughts again, I felt like I'd been suddenly put back into my body, but had no recollection of where I'd been.
Would you call it a lack of focus? Maybe. But I tend to like my "overload" theory. We drive ourselves to push ourselves to the limit every day. If we get to the limit comfortably for a while, we push further and further. It's as if we thrive on biting off more than we can chew and, when we can't swallow it, are afraid to spit it out.
For myself, I know I need to start working smarter. I'm getting someplace, but I'm spending too much energy on the trip. I believe I'm not alone with this. I believe we're all trying so hard to realize our goals, we focus too much on the irrelevant and not enough on the important.
Maybe it's time to jump back and regroup and focus on that for a while.
Peace
upma
