STAYING FOCUSED
by Ed Blunt

“Life is a fight for territory. As soon as you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over!” Dr. Edwin Lewis Cole

Have you ever found your mind wandering to places that you knew it shouldn’t? At times, do you find it challenging to see a task through with single-minded focus? Is it ever difficult for you to stay on one thought for more than 30 seconds, or read an entire page of something without looking up?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may be showing signs of “matter-over-mind syndrome.” This syndrome typically affects anyone who has the ability to think clearly and productively, but finds him-herself minding things that don’t matter instead of minding things that do.

But seriously folks, distractions are everywhere and they are constantly fighting for space in our minds! In the course of one hour, I was bombarded with 22 commercials for products that I don’t use; fielded a call from a family member who wanted to talk about someone else’s problems rather than focusing on solutions to their own; was exposed to at least 38 billboards of half-naked people selling something other than their skin; and a series of random people with bad attitudes and foul language (can you tell I live in NYC?)- And I was on my way to speak at an empowerment event!

Have you ever been in a situation where you felt like you were being tested? Where you have to take a moment to compose yourself, or count from ten in order to get back in alignment with your greatest self, your best intention? I ask the question because the instant you decide to take your life to another level or expand your experience, the elements will come out to test your focus and test your commitment. I’ve experienced some of these elements in the form of television, well intentioned, not meaning to be discouraging family members, and unsolicited requests to do anything other than the thing I am most focused on.

What forms do your elements of distraction take? Whatever their form you must not take them personally. Just know that they will come and they will test your character, commitment and resolve to stay focused.

So be deliberate, determined and directed! Stay focused on those things that are important to your growth, impact and success. Your mind, like any award-winning garden or successful crop, must be tended to on a daily basis. The territory of your mind-imagination must be protected, nourished and cultivated with focus. I heard a farmer say that it’s a natural process for all good to be attacked, but it’s how the good is protected that determines what flourishes and what doesn’t.

Ed Blunt is a Life Design Architect for businesses and organizations that want to go beyond their limitations and into their possibilities! He has successfully awakened a new design of hope, progress and possibility for thousands nationally and internationally, challenging them to rise to a new level of internal programming in order to produce outstanding results! He now lives in Montclair, NJ. For your free resource download please go to www.edblunt.com and click on the resource tab.

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