Put On Your Mind Beam

                  Your focus is really your time and attention put together to accomplish just about anything. It’s your mind beam. I used to think the term baby steps sounded so silly but when you think about it just tilting a little bit of effort into doing something starts it. Just a little bit of time and a little bit of attention to your purpose. Your hobby. Your project. Your marathon gets it all going. You take a calendar and put it on the wall and everytime you complete your activity on this project for the day you put a big green checkmark on that date. Every day as your inspiration deepens, you keep adding the checkmarks. Then you get on a roll and see how many days in a row you can go. All the lights are green and it becomes a part of you. That's why it doesn’t matter how you start. Just start.

Everyday Is A Brand New Day And Blank Page

When you get up in the morning, you do your basics. Eat, drink your coffee or juice, have a shower. Now you know you’ve got the survival stuff out of the way and that part is good for the day. 

While you were eating, you started to think about your new discipline and some ideas start to pop up. So you write them down.

The fun part about our creativity is you never know what might come out of it, however you do it anyways. You often surprise yourself too.

You zone out for a while as you practice your craft and keep repeating some actions over and over. Meanwhile the ideas just keep coming.

Your own eternal mind beam. As you move through it, the ideas keep coming and you write them down. To use today and maybe another day. Any one of these ideas, if you use them, can take you on another deep dive down the rabbit whole. More ideas generate more ideas.

Just like the more you write, the more you write, the more you write.

So you just keep using your mind beam and focus your time and attention on building. Its incredible how much gets completed and accomplished over 3 months, a year, 5 years and so on. The exciting part to as you learn more about your self and your skillset, it becomes more and more refined. It really makes life exciting. One guy took this to heart and was a pilot. 

It Really Is All About The Journey You Choose

When you are a Pilot you have a checklist you have to follow during take off and then there is a whole bunch of rules, regulations, disciplines you must follow in order to get your passengers or cargo, safe to the next destination. After a number of years doing that, he thought to himself, wow that was really interesting becoming a Pilot, what else do I want to accomplish using my skillset of learning? So he went on to study as a Lawyer for the next 6 years. He picked an area of specialization and practiced that for a number of years and became quite successful at it. Then, if you can believe it, he decided he wanted another change and wanted to impact more people on what he felt was a more meaningful vocation and went and became a Surgeon. That was another 8 years to become a full fledged operating Doctor and Surgeon. 

So there you go. A Pilot, a Doctor and a Surgeon. That is quite the pedigree. Just imagine the satisfaction he felt and all the people he impacted.

He used his skill of learning to focus his time and attention somewhere along the way. Perhaps it was in his original schooling. It could have been in some sports he was playing. Maybe even Martial Arts or Yoga. With that he used the same skill to learn all 3 of his vocations.

Imagine how else this affected the rest of his life in other areas. When you have one high standard or area of excellence it tends to affect other areas. 

How You Learn One Thing Is How You Learn Everything

So really, it comes down to what you really want, and you have to be clear on it. Your time and focus on it are the real variables to completing it. Time, after today, the day is gone. We don’t get anymore of it and they aren’t making anymore of it, so we have to use it wisely. Thats why its good every once in a while to just slow yourself down, take a notebook and a pen and just sit and reflect some afternoon. Write down new ideas, new inspirations or plans that just keep coming up in your mind. Very often there is some repeating thoughts in there that you can explore. Or maybe you have some other project or goal you want to work on and want to dive even deeper. That time alone is so precious. Most people can sit still for 15 minutes however if you really take time with yourself to allow your thinking to slow down you can capture some of your future on paper and keep building on it.

My desk is usally full of great ideas. I have posties and sticky notes all over the place. Every week I round them up and keep a running list of ideas. A lot of them don’t make it. But there is always a few in there that I can look back now on that were totally life shifting. Writing them down puts them in the minds eye. They sound great at the time and we never know where they might go until they pass the acid test. You wrestle and play with an idea and ask yourself ‘what if’.

Wouldn’t that be great if……..? What if I did it this way?

The ‘what if’ game is powerful. You stretch an idea to the max and after a few rounds if the idea is still standing, you know you’ve got something.

The most exciting and ongoing part is using this skill every day on your own goals. The feeling of satisfaction that comes from it is enormous. Especially when you can look back and say, ‘Wow I am so glad I did that.’

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