Keep your Focus !!

I was watching the quarter final bout between Mary Kom and her Tunisian opponent being held at the London Olympics 2012. Mary Kom from India won the bout to reach the semi finals and assure herself and India an Olympic medal. Well, you might say that one person out of the two anyway had to win. So what is so special about this bout that i had to mention it in my blog.

Let me give you a brief history of this famous boxing lady from India.  Mary Kom, is a boxer from Manipur, India. She is a five-time World Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer in the world to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships. She is a mother of two and ages close to 30 years as of this bout. She has been in the boxing arena for the last 13 years. She is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

What separates her from the rest of the lot ? It is her focus and passion on her goal which is boxing.

Any married lady with kids belonging to a middle class family would be struggling to meet her day to day routine challenges of life. But she also had 24 hours in a day, she also had the same challenges that each one if us had - and being a woman in a traditional Indian family, may be more..but she did not lose her focus on her passion. At every point in life, she would have got options to chose from and she chose her passion every single time. Not to mention the kind of support her family would have given her or the kind of hard work she would have put in to become a world champion.

There are so many paths that are available to all of us everyday in our life. We make a decision at each point. Decide what your path is and stay focused there. Don't keep wandering around in all directions. Take a decision and stick to it. There is no point running , even at a very high speed, if you keep changing directions every now and then. The end result would not be worth the effort you are putting in.

Everyday, every hour, every moment, our mind is taking decisions. You got to decide what is important for you, chose your path and stick to it. Keep your focus. Do not keep changing it. I know so many friends who want to do something special in life. They know what they want. They might also know how to start, some even would start but at the first big challenge, most of them would give up. Bring your dream in, stay focused and continue to work on your passion. There is only one life and that too, there is limited time available. When will you do it if not now.

Keep a carbon paper in the hot sunlight and there would be no result or impact that sunlight can have on the carbon paper. Bringing the focus through a lens accumulates the energy and this focused energy burns the carbon paper in the same sunlight. Simple logic. Energy is accumulated and focused on one spot and not wasted and wandered away. The same holds true with our life and the goals that we have. The same energy that you have today can give you mediocre results or exceptional results depending on how focused your energies are on your goal.

If Financial Freedom is your goal, you might have to do away your energy (money in this case) from other sources of expenditure like a big car or the latest gadget and keep your money focused on your goal of financial freedom. You will achieve the unexpected. Mary Kom was a normal small built lady from a remote village. If she can do it, so can we. We are all capable. God made all of us equal. We all have the same amount of time with us, We just need to stay focused on our goals.

 

Keep focused to achieve exceptional results !!

Cheers !!

Manoj Arora