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The Least Focused People Are Those That Are Easily Inspired
If you keep getting inspired you’re not focused
I get it.
The world is so vast, so incredible that it feels hard to pick just one thing to stick at. It feels like whatever you are picking, you’re foregoing a million other things. It feels like a trade-off, one that you can’t quite bear. When finally convince yourself that it’s worth the trade-off and picking one thing is the right thing to do, you’ll find yourself focused. You are inquisitive, hard-working and start to become passionate about your one thing. Maybe, just maybe, this is your thing. Months go by and you’re still set on your thing.
But then you see a post, have a conversation or get a text and it all changes. You become inspired. All of a sudden your mind is doing backflips and your imagination is sparked. Over the next few days, that spark becomes a roaring fire and you have long forgotten that one thing you started with. That work you’ve just put in for the last 5 months falls by the waist-side, now your too busy thinking about your new thing. That is until the next thing comes along.
Where does this cycle stop? What is the line between inspiration and focus? How do you learn to channel your inspiration into your current proposition rather than becoming inspired to do a…
