Monday, January 19, 2009

Focus

People always say that we must focus for us to achieve success.

They may be teachers telling their pupil, whom are gathered, standing or sitting, in a hall or in open spaces, with or without air conditioning or even fans.

'You must focus in your studies in order to be successful or in order to score excellent marks in your examination'.

They may be the school principal in yet another school, saying 'Focus is important. You must focus if you want to achieve academic excellence', to his students in a weekly school general assembly.

They maybe a vice-chancellor of a big university, addressing hundreds or even thousands of new  students, during a gathering to welcome the students to the university. 'Your situation is now different from what you experienced in secondary school. For most of you, this may be the very first time you live away from your parents. If you are not careful, you could get easily distracted. You may lose focus and if that happen, your study would suffer. You would be left behind and your parent would be disappointed.'

They may be a personnel manager of a business organisation, saying to his troubled staff 'This is why we discourage our staff from being involve in a business. Look what happen to you. How can you focus on your official work when your personal business matters keeps bothering you'.

A captain of an international conglomerate during a press conference after the company's annual general meeting explains to reporters that the company he is leading will divest off all non-core business interest as the company need to focus its resources on strengthening its core business to survive the difficult economic situation.

Management, business and motivation gurus, addressing their captivated audience in a large international conference or penning their best selling book also emphasises 'Focus, Focus, Focus'.

Focus. it must be a very important word. Everybody that is anybody talk of it. Everybody else are listening and nodding their heads, focus on grasping the importance of being focus in their endeavour towards success.

Focus. Not just a word. It is a word with meaning. Must be important meaning. Everebody talk about it with that sense of importance. Highlights the importance and the negative effect of it's lacking on enyone's journey towards success.

What is focus then. Why is it so important. Where do you focus on. When must you be focused. And most importantly, how to focus.