I find myself losing focus at times. I take my eyes off of the prize. I believe I become overwhelmed with the “IDEA.” I look at the whole staircase instead of seeing each step. Its a weakness I have had for as long as I remember. However, even when I begin to walk away someone or something pulls me back in. Whether its friends, family, or just materialistic wants. They give me unknowing hints of where my focus needs to be. But yet I still fall to another weakness. The weakness of “BALANCE.”Life goes in many directions all at once. Some have the ability to have a part of themselves walk each path laid with equal concentration. Others like me, get wrapped in one path until another path is revealed then we leave the first path behind to began the new path’s journey. While life is constant change. We must remember how we respond to these changes as they are our directional guide.
I remember having ideas that I felt were great and started working on them and with those ideas sparked another idea and another. I was now consumed with ideas, which is a good thing, but with no direction. From there stems more distraction more frustration and no progress. I started trying to do more than one thing at a time, MULTI TASKING. In ways multi tasking is great but when you multi task so much you never finish anything it then becomes a problem. Let’s face it today life demands multi tasking. Everything we do in life requires you to be doing something else. From our home life to our work life if we aren’t doing more than one thing then we are behind. There was a time when you focused on one thing at a time to ensure one it was done and two it was done properly. Today we are more concerned with how much we can get done than the quality of how its done. As a society we also have excepted the quality of the mass multi tasked work. Now I’m not saying multi tasking is anything negative but the question now is “what if with all this multi tasking we never finished anything?” I run in to this from time to time actually more often than I’d like to admit. I have fought with this issue time and time again. I seem to have so many things on my plate but I never clear it. I now have realize that I have to PRIORITIZE my task. I have to keep things in prospective in how and when I want things done. Over the years I can’t even count the numerous ideas that never got explored and goals I didn’t achieve. Although I still face the negatives from my lack of balanced multi tasking. I have less unexplored and unachieved goals by PRIORITIZING.
Prioritizing is like setting a guideline in how you want things done. We already see prioritizing when we are at work but we see it less at home. Maybe its from wanting to feel less control. Which is completely understandable. Our home lives are usually our escape, our safe haven from the demands and restrictions in life. However, having a guideline can also improve the quality and time we have in our lives. Imagine trying to plan for a party for you and a group of friends. Whether its formal or informal there are many things to be done. Without some kind of plan or guideline you will be running around aimlessly. Although things may work out fine and on time just think of the processes and the time you will spend trying to finish. The key is to think of the whole situation and break it down into smaller steps or goals. Now you have more digestible pieces. Then you must figure out which ones has a greater impact and which ones have more time constraints. These processes seem to be common place when discussed, although we do it everyday in our work lives. Most of us neglect it in our home lives. However, hardly any of us do it in our mind or in the pursuit of our dreams.
