One of the key ingredients for success can be summed up with one simple wordFocus! On what? Thats easyone thing at a time. You see, in this fast-paced, multitask society we live in, it seems we are judged by how many different things we can do all at one time; yet in reality, we can only do one thing well at any given time.
Imagine being on your computer playing music, checking emails, working on a Word document, Excel worksheet, and PowerPoint presentation, and looking up stuff on the Internet. Your system might move pretty slowly. Right? Guess what? The same applies to us. We can do things faster and better, if we focus on only one thing at a time.
To illustrate this point even more, I want to share the following example with you.
Its 4th down, 12 seconds remain on the clock, and your team is down by 3 points. You are the wide receiver in the biggest football game of your life, and you are called upon to win the game for the home crowd. You line up to begin the final play. The ball is snapped and you run down field.
As the ball is heaved down field in your direction, you feel the anticipation of the event which is about to unfold. You envision it...