7th April 2011
`The deer hunter does not notice the mountains'
Zen proverb
Success in life is a result of an important trait: the ability to focus all our attention on one most important thing and leaving out every other thing. It is not how strong you are, but what is even more important is how focussed you are. Again it is not merely the focus, but the quality of your focus which is important. You can add one more dimension to your focus – the uninterrupted duration of your focus. The ability to focus on our most important priority for a long duration of time will decide the probability of our success.
Why not do an exercise? I am sure you read newspaper or watch news channels on the television. Stop reading this and take a piece of paper and pencil and write down three news items that you recall immediately. After jotting down the same, check how relevant is the news to your role and goal in life. In my time management seminars, when i do this exercise, nine out of ten people will be surprised to know that what came to their mind had very little relevance to their goals!
But, if a most successful person were to do this exercise, a majority of the news item will be very much connected to his role and goal. It is this trait which makes them successful in their life.
If we are not focussed, no matter how much hard we work, we will not be able to reach our ambitions in our life. Since we pursue irrelevant things in our life, we will become irrelevant. We will be present now, but will be missing in the future.
I was very much impressed at the power of the following quotation and I am sure that you will also be:
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
-- Og Mandino
N C Sridharan
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