There is a cleansing nature to FOCUS that i am fascinated with
my definition of doing great things is doing the things that make me feel the most useful, the most happy, the most content. doing those things that may not make sense to anyone else but me, and doing them excellently well. at least to the best of my (potential) ability at any given point.
i use the term “potential” ability because my belief is: whatever i can do at any given point is based off what i know. and the possibility of how much that knowledge can expand with time is infinite. so i do my best with what i know while i continue to seek to know more and improve upon what i know. when i know better i aim to do better. this is my “potential” ability, as opposed to just my ability.
so of late i’ve become more intensively fascinated with focus. the more i observe nature, great people, or even the universe at large, the clearer it becomes to me that anything within finite perception that achieves greatness only does so by sticking to their one ideal at first. by being fully immersed in that one assignment in front of them, either by divine design or by free will, either way, they are exclusively focused. this is what some people might refer to as obsession. i will write about that some other time. let’s stick to the usage of “focus” today.
there is a cleansing nature to focus that pulls me in. it is impossible to be truly focused on an ideal, a mission, a project, a desire, whatever, and not automatically have to rid yourself of many other things that might seem relatively interesting. other possibilities that might promise similar or even better results, but when measured against what you have chosen to focus on will fall short. when you are truly focused, those ‘other’ things will prove to become contextually toxic, so you must reject them and their likely possibilities over and over again. hence the cleanse.
the more i want to do the thing i set out to do, and i do it, focus on it. the less i want to do other things that have nothing to do with that one thing. at least until it is done.
