Keep your eyes on the prize

Keep your eyes on the prize

Most of us never really focus. We constantly feel a kind of irritating
psychic chaos because we keep trying to think of too many things at
once. There's always too much up there on the screen.
There was an interesting motivational talk on this subject given by
former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson to his football players
before the 1993 Super Bowl:
 
"I told them that if I laid a two-by-four across the room, everybody
there would walk across it and not fall, because our focus would be that
we were going to walk that two-by-four, But if I put that same two-by-four 10 stories high
between two buildings only a few would make it, because the focus
would be on falling. Focus is everything. The team that is more focused
today is the team that will win this game." Johnson told his team not to be distracted by the crowd, the media, or the possibility of losing, but to focus on each play of the game itself just as if it were a good practice session.
 
The Cowboys won the game 52-17.
There's a point to that story that goes way beyond football. Most of us
tend to lose our focus in life because we're perpetually worried about so
many negative possibilities. Rather than focusing on the two-by-four,
we worry about all the ramifications of falling. Rather than focusing on
our goals, we are distracted by our worries and fears.
 
But when you focus on what you want, it will come into your life.
When you focus on being a happy and motivated person, that is who
you will be.

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