CHAPTER FOUR
Power of Focus
Focus creates direction and builds control. Focus must be in play if a target destination
would be reached. Focus defines life. The flight to the world of success is on the ticket of
focus. Focus is vital to life. Focus is one of the most important subjects in life and
anything intending to succeed. The outcome of life is often the result of focus. Your
energy, emotion, passion and design flows in the direction of your focus. What you
invest your energy in controls the totality of your life. The people that burn their
energies in irrelevancies fall under the thorns of life as destitute. Life does not apportion
space to individuals randomly; men grow to demand their place and forcefully seize it.
There is no give-away with life. Whatever result you desire, you must set out to earn it.
The reality of delighting in one’s desire is defined in the discipline of focus. The
individuals with great results don’t sleep without focus and wake up being champions.
The staircase they built to their crown is the expression of focus. The ability to keep the
eye on the ball builds the strength of stamina to push through the journey to the top.
Everyone that reached a defined destination engaged the power of focus.
The photography camera is a powerful explanation of how the power of focus works.
Whatever the printout of the camera is was its focus. What the camera lens focuses on
is what it powers out as outcome. The printout from the camera either right or wrong is
the result of the camera’s focus. If the results of the camera printout are not what are
expected, all needed to do to remedy the disappointment is to refocus the lens of the
camera. Set your focus in order and pour your vim in that direction. This is what to do to
create your result. Supply your focus emotion and passion to deepen it and run on the
belt of its strength. What arouses your emotion and keep the flames of your passion
thick? Find out what this is and build it into your focus. The life your focus will enjoy is
the flow of emotion you pour in it and the commitment of the passion you are willing to
invest in it.
4:1 Defined Focus
Build your focus on what you can be passionate about. Do not burn the energy of your
passion on things you are not excited about that won’t give your life a lift. Respect your
passion and just don’t throw it around on just anything. Put value on your passion; your
passion is your power. Use your passion to make your life exciting. What gives life to
anything is its power. Let this sink deep into you, your passion is your power. Your
power is your strongest negotiating tool to drive your life. Throw your power into the
ring to buy the life you desire. The power of your passion is the material that will
transform your life. Harness your power and give it direction built on focus. This is how
to position your power to deliver.
What you focus your life on is your choice. Define your focus. The compass of your life is
the function of your focus. Your success is not outside the radar of your focus. The
progression of success is lined on the track of focus. We have seen people rise to the top
and many abandoned at the base of life. The people that rose to the top may have had a
good head-start to bargain for success but that in itself is not full guarantee to hit the
mark. Those that end their lives at the bottom in life may also have had good head-start
but wasted the advantage.
Benjamin Franklin had only two years of formal education. He fought life; he was selfeducated and became a publisher. Despite how he started, he kept his focus of living an
impactful life. He founded a university, became America’s diplomat and he used his
diplomatic wit to get the support of the French government to win the America
revolution. He lived and died an institution. He is formally honoured with a day set aside
as Benjamin Franklin National day celebrated all over America. He had a poor start on
the soil of his past but he was brave enough to challenge it and redefined how he ended
his life. You can only conquer your past by focusing on your future. You have what to
live with and live for.
Give yourself the permission to succeed. Be intentional with how you live your life. You
can rise from the backside of life and be on the frontline. The possibility is within your
capacity. Build up your mind to collaborate with the future you have defined. Pump
your energy into the fight to achieve your life goals and invest the strength of disciplined
focus in the pursuit.
If you are ever going to rise, you will have to be intentional about it. Be strategic with
your life; avoid stumbling through as much as possible. Don’t under-penetrate life, you
would waste a lot of your possibilities that way. Engage life on your built advantage.
Pour yourself into your game and milk out as much possibilities in the opportunities
within your reach.
4:2 Broken Focus
If you are focused on your strength enough, the world will someday focus on you. On
the table of undisputable fact; well over ninety percent of those that reached their
destinations engaged the power of focus. When focus breaks, life becomes alarming.
Broken focus often results into broken life. No one can go far in life with the burden of
broken focus. When pilots navigate the sky in aircrafts, the magnetic compass serves as
the focus tool to guarantee flight consistency with destination. The aircraft that veers
off the direction of the magnetic compass would be having a destination landing failure.
I’ve once being on board in an aircraft that was threatened, it was like the plane was
going to crash. We were far up in the sky and the aircraft was lost, the pilots had started
managing us for a possible negative. I saw the commotion in the air bus. The panic was
next to hell. It was awesome we survived the big scare. Flight commotion is not what
any pilot wants to toy with.
A troubled flight is tension-soaked and dangerously alarming. In reality, the threat is not
as ugly as a life broken in focus. There would be nothing to live for if focus is out of
place. Imagine in a heavyweight boxing contest, a boxer in a bout with Deontay Wilder
suffers a broken focus; a possible funeral may follow the match. It’s just too damaging
to live through life running on broken focus. A high-speeding truck on a freeway moving
on broken focus would create fatal multiple accidents that would claim innocent lives
and cause infrastructural damages. That is not an experience anyone would want to be a
part of.
The Samba Boys of Brazil in the 2014 FIFA world Cup Semi-Final encounter against
Germany on home soil suffered a wreck of what became the nation’s biggest world cup
loss. The German machine was five goals to zero up by the end of the first forty-five
minutes. In the five goals lead, four goals were scored within just six minutes. It was
unbelievable! Brazil had their big stars featured in the game. Who could have predicted
such? Four goals against the mighty Brazil within six minutes? It was a nightmare. The
game ended seven goals to one in favour of the Germans. What happened to the
Brazilian team on the night? They suffered a moment of broken focus against a hungry
German team and the feast was served.
If you are traveling through life and you suffer a broken focus, just tool down, step aside
and retool for the journey. This is what we do if one of the tyres of a traveling vehicle
goes flat. The driver parks aside to fix the flat tyre and then roll back on track. A
traveling vehicle on flat tyre would be exposed to mockery, accident and hindering
other users of the road. This is the exact case with anyone with a broken focus still
running on the track. If your focus is broken, you are a step away from the grave of total
defeat.
4:3 Distraction
The most horrible enemy of focus is distraction. The poison of distraction is dangerous.
No one enveloped in distraction ends well. The focus that yields to the temptation of
distraction will surrender its power. The simple assignment of distraction is to break
focus. The biggest fight focus ever engage is distraction. Focus has the tenacity and
energy to hit its target. The fight may be intense but focus is strong in stamina to survive
the challenge. What rattles focus is the sting of distraction. The power of focus can put
in your hands the content of your desire but you have to conquer the pull of distraction.
Life is a journey and a race to a destination. The demand to reach the goal is not without
a fight. The force of focus is always integral to winning. The birds need wings to fly; the
lion needs its roaring power to hold command; the cheetah needs its speed to make
preys; you need your strength of focus to take down your pursuit. The journey would be
wasted if you permit distraction to derail your focus.
When you lose focus, you lose purpose. You can’t hit purpose if you are out of focus.
The delivery on success is not a stroll walk. You will always have to up your game to
make success happen. If you got your life focus right, you have strengthened your
chances of coming out strong on life but if your focus is tampered with in the negative,
no magical power can turn the ditch of a miserable reality that would burst on such life.
Don’t give in to distraction. The wind of distraction will attack your focus; the pull would
be strong but keep deepening yourself in the heart of your focus. Your potentially
blissful life would blow away if you surrender your focus to the wind of distraction. Stick
your life to the belt of your focus, that is where your rising would be defined. Whatever
the brand of the distraction is, raise your game above it. A well rooted tree will survive
the wildest wind. Build tenacity into your focus. The outcome of how you handle your
focus is what would be the printout of your life. Your focus is not what you want to toy
with. There is always a huge price to pay to attain success; disciplined focus is principal
in the equation.
4:4 Feed Your Focus
If you fail to define your journey through focus, the cheapest distraction would pull you
off track. Keep your focus. Don’t attempt to put your life on a trip if you have not
defined your focus. You don’t want to take a bad risk on crashing. The choice to keep
your focus is a personal decision you have to be committed to. Sustain your focus; it is
the prediction of the future. It will require a fight, fight the fight!
What you feed your focus with determines its strength and health. If you are not
intentional in feeding your focus, thorns would grow within you that would choke up
the life of your focus.
You need to be intentional in protecting and promoting your focus. As you invest in
feeding your focus, it develops stronger in stamina and the effect of the attacks of
distraction becomes weaker. It has to be a well laid plan. What you expose your mind to
affects the strength of your focus. Be careful not to expose your focus to toxins that
could damage its development. If you allow the negatives of difficulties and
impossibilities to flood your mind, your focus will suffer; it would lose strength and
become vulnerable to distraction. If you raised your mindset, feed your information
system and sustain your excitement to be successful, your focus would be imparted in
that order and become thick.