Focus

There was interesting motivational talk on this topic given by former Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson to his football players prior to the 1993 Super Bowl.   

"I told them that if I laid a two-by-four across the room, everybody there would walk across it and not fall, because our focus would be getting across the two-by-four.  But if I put that same two-by-four 10 stories high between twod buildings, only a few of you would make it, because your focus would be on falling.  FOCUS is everything.  The team that is most focused today is the team that will win this game."

Johnson told his team not to be distracted by the crowd, the media, or the possibility of losing, but to focus on each play of the game just as if it were a good pracitce session.  The Cowboys won the game 52 to 17.

There's a point to that story that goes way beyond football.  Most of us tend to lose our focus in business becays we're too worried about so many negative possibilities.  Rather than focusing on the two-by four, we worry about all of the opportunites to fall.  Rather than focusing on our goals, we are distracted by our worries and fears. 

But when you focus on what you want, it will come into your life.  When you focus on being a happy and motivated business owner, that is who you will be.