Gratitude Day 50/62: Focus

Focus is perhaps the greatest challenge formany human beings. Sometimes, when I start working on a document or task, my mind is drawn to another task and the next thing I know, I've gone too far, off-course.

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I started writing this post two days ago, I didn't intend to write a post. As a matter of fact, I intended to watch a video course on coding. I just started the video when the idea came to me like so: "Hey! why don't I write about focus?" I drifted from my coding course and started writing this. It is quite ironical that a post called focus was born out of the inablility to focus. After writing a paragraph, another splendid idea knocked me on the head. I thought to myself: Why don't I write about the steem silver coin that @papa-pepper gave to me earlier this year? I drifted again to another task and wrote almost 1000 words filled with intense passion and many gramatical errors and typos because I was not careful about the presentation. I didn't want to publish it just yet. I just wanted to get the idea off my head. When I came back to the blog post about focus, I remember that I had to finish my coding course before 12 am. My mind was drifted again to what I'm supposed to be doing(coding). I lacked focus. This is me on some days. Other days I just sit in front of my computer and stare in utter oblivion, knowing not what to do. Lol...

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

We all have limited energy and attention. People who have superfluous awesomeness like myself usually have the option of doing too many things because they actually can. The best way is to actually focus. Focus is going to make a world of difference and can differentiate the success from the failures. You have to figure out what is important to you and put all your energies there. They say the man who has learned a 1000 kicks is not as dangerous as the man who has learned just one kick 1000 times.

Today I'm grateful for the ability to multitask but I also understand that if I want to be effective and successful, I should be a able to prioritize and focus on one task at a time.