Focus To Reap Big Rewards
Donald Trump dropped in on the men with a surprise visit in episode three of the first season. He acknowledged Sam as the project manager, shook his hand, and wished him luck. After this meeting, Sam’s team members tried to get the awe struck Sam back on focus to complete the tasks at hand.
The ability to focus enables people to do amazing things. For example, the sun is a powerful energy source, while a laser is a weak energy source. With a little sun screen, most people can bathe in sunlight for hours. Most lasers take a few watts of energy and focus them in a coherent stream of light, but the laser, with this focus, can drill a hole through a diamond or wipe out a cancer.
When you are focused, it has the same effect as a laser. With focus, you create a powerful laserlike ability to accomplish things. When you become unfocused, you lose your power. When you focus your time and energy doing the important things, you will reap big rewards. With Sam as the Project Manager, the men spend considerable time looking for, and negotiating for, items that had smaller profit, and thus negotiating, margins. If the men had focused on the items with the highest profit margin during their negotiation task of week three, the items that could be discounted greater, rather than the gold, the outcome of the competition may have been different. Maybe Sam would not have been fired that week. Focus on the big things, not the minor ones.
In life, you get what you focus on. This rule applies to just about anything you can think of. Focus will help you get a new job, build your business, win an athletic competition, and build more wealth. If it is something you want, you must focus on that objective in order to succeed and acquire it. Earl Nightingale’s The Strangest Secret is one of the top selling motivational recordings of all time. Nightingale’s recordings are still sold world-wide and the company he founded with Lloyd Conant, Nightingale-Conant leads the industry producing audio success programs. Nightingale’s timeless secret is this, “You become what you think about most of the time.” This simple principle, or secret as Nightingale called it, is nothing more than focus.
There are many examples in business and sports where someone was better than average in multiple avenues. However, it was not until they picked one that they became exceptional. No one can be the best at everything. It is only with focus, intensity in one area, that greatness peaks at the highest level.
Focus on what produces the most results. Focus on those activities you do brilliantly and rewards will follow. It comes down to prioritizing. You must invest your time doing what you are best at and moves you toward your goals. Do this and success will be yours.
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Time Out – Perseverance
“The best people are the ones that don’t stop until the sale is made.
They never give up, they have no quit.”
- Donald Trump from The Apprentice, season
three episode one.