I write & publish the wordexplosion once a week, every Tuesday, covering topics as diverse and colorful as the words you use every day. The best time to read it is now. After all, you don’t have time to rush today, do you?
In last week’s wordexplosion, we looked at YOU DO FEEL. In today’s wordexplosion #51, let’s take a look…
…at what you also do when your health, energy and time allow.
You DO FOCUS
First things first, as you DO FOCUS, you might be interested in knowing what it is.
Like everything you know, focus is a word.
If it were anything different, how would you know what focus is?
In the wordy world
Focus is not something you must learn. It happens naturally whether you want it or not.
Many word-users start their day overwhelmed by long to-do lists, only to end up frustrated when they complete just a fraction of their to-do’s.
If you want to improve your focus, cap your to-do list at three tasks each day. It works because it forces you to decide the most impactful three on that day. At the same time, you automatically eliminate tasks that don’t move the needle, and you also stop beating you up for not getting more done.
If you habitually shift your focus from one opportunity to another, you’re acting like fleas jumping from each passing dog to another. The cost of such behavior will be foolish decisions that rob you of your dreams. The antidote to that are three decisions each word-user controls. 1) What words mean, 2) focus on your wants, not on theirs, and 3) what to do in spite of the distractions.
If you’re lucky
If you’re lucky, every new morning you decide how you’re going to use your energy and time by knowing what you want, what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. If you’re unlucky, make it a habit to do the above, or good luck to you.
A few word-users that achieve what they want. Those are the ones that direct their focus on their talent and strength.
On the other side of the spectrum, many have developed the habit of making their same decisions over and over again — instead of deciding once and for all to focus on nothing but their talent and strength.
Unknown to themselves, a small minority focus exclusively on what they want and on not getting it, hence the risk to become depressed.
Focusability
Up until now, there hasn’t been a word for the ability to focus.
Focusability
Now there is.
Focusability is essential to success.
If you plan on becoming productive without the ability to focus, forget it, for without focusability there will be more departures than arrivals and more breakdowns than breakthroughs.
Expand
Your current focus is determined largely by what you expect from the future.
What you focus on expands.
When you habitually focus on your talents, strengths, opportunities, relationships, and even money, you create more of it. And you’re not alone. The stars are on your side too, because the stardust you’re made of is response-able for your talents, strengths, opportunities, relationships, and money in the first place.
Words vs thoughts
Words are easier to remember than thoughts. But that’s not all. When you keep your word, you don’t have to remember anything.
When you focus on words, it’s because you know that clear words lead to clear thoughts — and that it doesn’t work the other way ‘round.
If on the contrary you focus on your thinking, it’s because you believe thoughts become things. Therefore, should you be unhappy or things aren’t clear, the promoters of thoughts will tell you all it takes is change your thoughts.
Change your thoughts doesn’t work. Change your words works in the blink of an eye.
In the wordless world
The wordless world gets usually mistaken for nature.
That said, the sun, energy, fire, air, earth, water, atoms, cells, plants, mountains, valleys, oceans, stars, moons and wordless animals — to name a few that never spent a day at school — don’t focus for the self-evident reason that nature is void of words.
Yet everything in nature is accomplished. The oceans refuse no river yet they are not full.
WORD-USE
Words are what you respond to.
Focus is no exception.
Call words a dream, it doesn’t change anything.
ELECTRIC QUOTE
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
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