They say time flies when you're having fun. We all had some fun before and have experienced this saying in real life.
People download games and movies and they do that sometimes just to kill time. How come time flies so fast when they're having that much fun? It's not like time actually changes speed. But it's more of a perspective thing and the real answer is the word focus.
They don't have their full focus on the time but on something interesting and so it appears time moves faster in that moment for them to achieve their goal of killing time without getting frustrated.
Through this concept I learned something very vital about goals and achievements.
If you have a huge goal ahead of you, the fastest and surest way to achieve that goal is to take your eyes off of the goal. Yeah, sounds very contradicting to what we've been taught about "focus on your goals".
What I mean is, you need to lose focus on the end results and put your attention on the process and the steps it'll take to get there. That's the way to attain the goal faster.
I'll give you a simple scenario to explain my point. Let's just say you saw your favorite fruit on top of a tree and wanted to climb the tree to get the fruit.
When you start the climbing process and you've got your eyes solely on the fruit while climbing, it means you're not paying that much attention to the branches, what you're touching, where you're placing your feet and hands to climb the tree. In this situation your chances of making a mistake and falling off the tree is way higher. If you fall off the tree, you'll have to climb again making the journey a lot longer.
It's the same scenario to anybody that attempted to climb a high mountain like Mount Everest. If their focus is only on the top and not the other parts of the mountain that comes before the top, their chances of getting there is slimmer.
In your journey of success, where your attention lies is super important.
Let's take the tree climbing scenario in a different way. You start climbing and your attention is on where you put your hands and feet, you're feeling the wind blowing against you and you're enjoying the climbing process. Although your primary objective is to reach the top and grab the fruit, you're actually focused more on the experience you have getting there.
By doing this, you're more careful with the moves you make and you eventually climb faster that way.
A lot of youth these days are very much influenced and a bit too inspired by the results of success people that came before them. They barely get excited with the journey or story the successful person would share rather it's what they've achieved in the end that impresses.
The issue with that is, the successful person didn't get successful by the results but by the journey and the process. If your focus is on the actual work done to succeed, you'll succeed faster than the one who's always daydreaming about the moment they become rich.
Yes sometimes you can motivate and inspire yourself by looking into your future and imagining yourself having achieved the goal, but don't spend too much of your time doing that.
It'll do you much good if you were paying attention to what must be done to get what you want.
Many of us want the success and it's normal for that to be the case but the success comes as an effect of the process.
Let's say you go to he gym to start doing some sets and reps. You have a goal of lifting the dumbbell 50 times.
Focusing on every lift you make, paying attention to how you're lifting the dumbbell and perhaps if you've got some music on, paying attention to the song and the inspiration it's giving you plus the goal of how nice you'll become if you successfully workout that hard every day for a long time will get you to finish the sets faster than having your focus on reaching the 50 reps.
Paying too much attention to ending the workout session makes it more painful and tedious than enjoying the process.
That's the point I'm trying to make. Where your focus lies determines your speed and success rate.
I need to channel my focus on the process more
Absolutely friend, that'll help you get to your goal way faster than if you're only focused on the end
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