Focus

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I’ve been shuffling around with creativity, health, fitness, work, career, transformation, discipline, moving, European, simplicity, lightening, productivity, motivation, connection, focus, rebirth, renew, completion, family, friends, adventure, balance, mindfulness… I could go on…

It’s already spring, and it’s about time I make up my mind. Many of these words should be a byproduct of the one word I choose. Many won’t be, and I will have to work on that, too.

Lately, I’ve been thinking that exactly 18 years ago, I was working very hard on getting my thesis done in order to be able to graduate from university. I knew if I didn’t do it then, I would never do it. By January, I was still drifting and not knowing what to do, but by February I focused all my attention, and I knew I could do it. I studied, worked, investigated, read, ate, slept thesis. By early April, the first complete draft was finished, and by early May I was done.

This is the one time I remember that I worked very hard to get something accomplished and with one goal in mind, and I never drifted for a second in those four months, and it’s one of my proudest achievements because it let me finish one of the most important cycles of my life.

So 18 years later, I find myself in the same situation. Only this time I have let myself drift longer, and now I’m running short of time. But I know I can do it. Things have already started to happen that are moving me in other direction or that are boycotting my main plan. I need to focus on my main goal of the year and do all the things I need to do to accomplish it. I need to move it from my resolutions list to my life list.

My one-word resolution for 2010 is focus.

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