FOCUS ON THE BIGGER THINGS
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus” (Abraham Graham Bell).
It is very difficult to juggle many balls at one moment. The greater the number of balls juggled, the higher the chances of failure. The
more you pay attention to what you want, the higher the chances that those things will manifest in your life. Life is a product of deep concentration on one thing at a time. It is not bad to have many goals but it is best to address them one at a time. Trying to kill two
birds with one stone has the effect of yielding undesirable results.
True greatness lies in knowing the right direction to follow given a number of alternatives. What you focus on has a tendency of expanding. The moment water is channeled and subjected to pressure, it generates
electricity. No such power will ever be generated as long as there isn’t concentration of the water.
Success is likewise a product of focusing on those things that matter. Always remember the Pareto principle in your dealings - identify the twenty percent of things, that if you do well, will give you eighty percent of the results. The majority fail because they concentrate on eighty percent of the minute things that do not give much.
Even though small achievements can be used to build bigger ones, it is always of prime importance to focus on the bigger things that yield the benefits. Never waste your stones on sparrows because guinea fowls are yet to come.
Henry Ford was described by his mother as a born mechanic since his passion and focus on
engines started from a tender age and he never lost focus of what he wanted to achieve. His greatest moment as a youngster came when he saw a 'road engine', a steam vehicle used to haul farm machinery. He learned about steam engines by becoming friends with the men who ran them. He taught himself to fix watches,
and used the watches as learning aids of machine design. Thus, young Ford demonstrated mechanical ability, leadership, focus and a preference for learning
by trial-and-error.
Because of his knack for gadgets, at age fifteen he could fix almost any watch, and he even considered becoming a watch manufacturer.
His idea for the automobile was too great and, even with discouragement from family members, notably from his father, he wasn't deterred but instead began to build a car in the workshop on the family farm.
Ford remained focused regardless of the ridicule. Some wanted him to be a medical doctor whilst his father wanted him to be a farmer. He chose to be a mechanic instead to the extent that he audaciously declared how he wanted to be the “Napoleon of Mechanics.”
His focus and commitment to mechanics was
cemented when in his 20s, he had a brief meeting with the greatest inventor of all time - Thomas Edison. Besides the fact that everyone was seeing electricity as the future, Edison encouraged Ford to stick to the engine- and to the engine he stuck all his life till death.
The level of Ford's focus to mechanics and commitment thereto was tested when his employer offered him a major promotion on condition he gave up his private obsession for invention. This is what Ford had to say on the decision that he took; "I had to choose between my job and my automobile. I chose the
automobile, or rather I gave up the job - there was really nothing in the way of choice. For already I knew that the car was bound to be a success. I quit my job and went into the automobile business.”
There is nothing with power to beat a focused individual. In the early 1920s Ford Motor Company employed 50,000 and was sending out from its production line 4,000 cars a day. In 1921 alone, five million cars were produced with 15 million Model T's running off the assembly line in that particular decade alone. He achieved this because of the unrelenting focus he possessed on what he believed.
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus” (Abraham Graham Bell).
It is very difficult to juggle many balls at one moment. The greater the number of balls juggled, the higher the chances of failure. The
more you pay attention to what you want, the higher the chances that those things will manifest in your life. Life is a product of deep concentration on one thing at a time. It is not bad to have many goals but it is best to address them one at a time. Trying to kill two
birds with one stone has the effect of yielding undesirable results.
True greatness lies in knowing the right direction to follow given a number of alternatives. What you focus on has a tendency of expanding. The moment water is channeled and subjected to pressure, it generates
electricity. No such power will ever be generated as long as there isn’t concentration of the water.
Success is likewise a product of focusing on those things that matter. Always remember the Pareto principle in your dealings - identify the twenty percent of things, that if you do well, will give you eighty percent of the results. The majority fail because they concentrate on eighty percent of the minute things that do not give much.
Even though small achievements can be used to build bigger ones, it is always of prime importance to focus on the bigger things that yield the benefits. Never waste your stones on sparrows because guinea fowls are yet to come.
Henry Ford was described by his mother as a born mechanic since his passion and focus on
engines started from a tender age and he never lost focus of what he wanted to achieve. His greatest moment as a youngster came when he saw a 'road engine', a steam vehicle used to haul farm machinery. He learned about steam engines by becoming friends with the men who ran them. He taught himself to fix watches,
and used the watches as learning aids of machine design. Thus, young Ford demonstrated mechanical ability, leadership, focus and a preference for learning
by trial-and-error.
Because of his knack for gadgets, at age fifteen he could fix almost any watch, and he even considered becoming a watch manufacturer.
His idea for the automobile was too great and, even with discouragement from family members, notably from his father, he wasn't deterred but instead began to build a car in the workshop on the family farm.
Ford remained focused regardless of the ridicule. Some wanted him to be a medical doctor whilst his father wanted him to be a farmer. He chose to be a mechanic instead to the extent that he audaciously declared how he wanted to be the “Napoleon of Mechanics.”
His focus and commitment to mechanics was
cemented when in his 20s, he had a brief meeting with the greatest inventor of all time - Thomas Edison. Besides the fact that everyone was seeing electricity as the future, Edison encouraged Ford to stick to the engine- and to the engine he stuck all his life till death.
The level of Ford's focus to mechanics and commitment thereto was tested when his employer offered him a major promotion on condition he gave up his private obsession for invention. This is what Ford had to say on the decision that he took; "I had to choose between my job and my automobile. I chose the
automobile, or rather I gave up the job - there was really nothing in the way of choice. For already I knew that the car was bound to be a success. I quit my job and went into the automobile business.”
There is nothing with power to beat a focused individual. In the early 1920s Ford Motor Company employed 50,000 and was sending out from its production line 4,000 cars a day. In 1921 alone, five million cars were produced with 15 million Model T's running off the assembly line in that particular decade alone. He achieved this because of the unrelenting focus he possessed on what he believed.
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