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The importance of focus! →

Posted on January 3, 2012 in Life with 1 comment.

I spent a bit of time towards the end of last year coming up with New Years resolutions in all areas of my life. They ranged from activities I want to start, things I want to learn and areas in my life that need improvement. Throughout writing my resolutions, I started thinking about all the previous years in which I have set resolutions and how many of those resolutions came to fruition.

I realized then, that most of my resolutions are never met. This got me thinking about a reason as to why they are never met. Was it laziness? timing? work? commitment? procrastination? After thinking about it for a while, it was none of that. It came down to one thing, and that is focus.

In most areas of my life, I have always wanted to do too much all at once. Take coding for instance, I have never been able to focus on a core set of technologies that align with my skills and abilities. I always end up falling for the “this language is better than the one I know” fallacy and I go ahead and learn the new language thinking it’s better, only to find that it isn’t better than the first one I knew. Not only that, in most cases the only difference between the two languages is the syntax!

In coding, the minute I divert from a language, I start forgetting it and then ironically enough, I end up focusing on the new language that I have learnt. Why don’t I just pick and focus on one language?

So as I figured this out, I decided that my core New Years resolution is to focus on things and become an expert in them. All the other resolutions fall under this umbrella resolution.

Here are a few examples of my resolutions for this year

• Focus on learning one mobile development language and become an expert at it (incidentally I have picked Android – more on this in another post)
• Focus on doing a manageable amount of modules towards my degree and getting excellent results (rather than doing too many get getting mediocre results)
• Focus on doing one adventurous outdoor activity (more than one can get expensive!)
• Focus on reading one self improvement or business book a month

Those are just a few of my resolutions, but you get the idea – FOCUS! I’ll let you know how I get on through the year.

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