The Importance of Focus: Why most people miss their targets
Posted by Louise on Feb 3, 2010
Here is one sad reason why up to 97% of us fail to reach our targets and ultimately never experience our Ideal Life.
FACT: If you can’t see what you’re aiming at, you definitely can’t hit it
Imagine you are playing tennis. Your partner on the other side of the court hits a nice, easy shot to you. You decide to whallop the ball straight down the tramline, but at the last moment you think a tricky little drop shot just over the net would be a sure winner. Predictably you hit the ball neither down the tramline nor just over the net, instead you send it directly into the net with a disappointing “thwack”.
I see people doing this all the time. In fact I have done it my self on many occasions. Next time you see a beginner playing tennis watch them carefully. Invariably they follow the ball with their eyes until just before they hit it. At the last second they take their eyes off the ball and focus instead on where they want the ball to land or somewhere else. Result: a missed shot. Why? Because they took their eye off the ball.
Any tennis coach with their salt will tell you, “Keep your eye on the ball!” Learn from the tennis professional. If you want to hit your target, you must focus all your attention on it. The bottom line is, if we want to create our Ideal Life, there is only one way to do so: have a clear goal and focus our power, expertise and energy until we reach it.
Here are two famous inspirational quotes by Billie Jean King (1943 – ), a tennis champion and a powerful woman.
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
“No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win — and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.”
Famous Inspirational Quotes:
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