Dec 19 2008
The Key to Success
Degrees, knowledge and yes skills are required to get you started on a career but to me, focus is the ultimate quality that put someone on the right track of success.
Distraction is the least lacking in this world specially here in the US and one’s focus can easily be shifted. Not to mention the day to day trivial incidents that stick to memory.
I know many of you struggle to stop your mind from wandering and daydreaming.
But how much fight do you put on to get your mind back to the path that will lead you to accomplish your goal?.
My little secret is to have the courage to be judgmental to yourself. Yes, you have to have to be just a little hard on yourself.
When I realize that my mind is waisting time on some of the things that are not relevant to what I am suppose to be thinking, I have the courage to recognize it first, secondly find ideas that will make me aware that (for example, since I am an immigrant here, I remind myself how lucky I am to have made it here and that I should make good use of that advantage to help the people back home who are struggling to just get decent food to eat or water to drink). That usually helps, so you have to find something that you know you are really sensitive to that will make your mind switch right away!
What’s your strategy? Mind sharing?