FOCUS - What It Really Means

Yesterday, along with my fiance, we drove approx. 929Km from Sydney to Melbourne, to visit my fiances son. It's a long drive by any standards, but with good roads and little traffic, we made it in around 10.5 hours.

My finance repeatedly asked if I wanted her to take over the driving, and was surprised when I said no.

I was FOCUSed on the task at hand.

I'd planned ahead and prepped the car, got everything ready to load into the car, had a good nights sleep and got up early to miss the morning rush hour. We had regular McPit stops along the way to stretch, unload and reload the coffee, and we even treated our selves to a waffle cone (we're on holidays, right?!)

Since we were making such good time, we made a slight detour to look at a new plot of land I'd recently purchased, it was in a great new suburb, and a new high school looked to be set to open any time soon, on the same street - sweet!

After that, we stopped off to buy cheese. You may be wondering why, but I was informed by my fiance that she wouldn't be able to make a certain dish without it. Hard to argue with that one. Then we popped into the hardware store, to buy work gloves. I didn't realise she was serious about me working in the garden until that point, more on that in a future blog. The things you do for a happy and harmonious relationship!

So whats the point of this blog?

FOCUS - Focus on One (most optimal) Course Until Successful.

My goal was to get to Melbourne, my course was set (thanks Navman), I had planned and prepared for the trip, and took massive directed action. Once I'd achieved my goal of getting to Melbourne, I allowed myself a reward, a few detours to advance my finance and relationship goals.

What is it that you need to FOCUS on?

Remember this acronym. Multitasking is wasting your time and diluting your focus.

Trevor Long