The more you Focus, the Winner you get

How to transform your thinking into your reality…The other day I was explaining to someone about focus and used the example of how race car drivers are trained. They will be driving down the stretch, things appear to be going smoothly and then the instructor sitting on the right purposely puts the car into a spin and totally alerting the race car driver. Next thing you know the driver is looking at the wall that is getting closer and closer. We all know what happens when we focus on what might happen. If we spend too much time on it, then it comes true.

We totally mess up. What you talk about, you bring about. Like attracts like.

So then the instructor says ‘focus on the turn.’ FOCUS ON THE TURN! he yells. Then the drivers focus is then on the turn and he manages to avoid the wall because of his focus. The drivers are trained this way. Putting the car into a spin is done on purpose so that when it happens in real live racing, they are trained to know what to keep focusing on. 

It's funny because there I was on another day and telling this story to another individual. And each time I tell this story, I hear myself echoing in the background like I am telling it to myself.

What am I doing to keep my self in focus?

What am I focusing on? How often do I focus on it. How important is it on what I am focusing? Is this what I am focusing on everyday? What is my number one focus? Those are the kind of questions I ask myself.

It's the end of November right now and the actions I am taking are focused towards results I am expecting for the next 12 months. 

So how many things or routines are you following that really set you up to reach your goal or destination? Just like a Professional Football player in his off season has to keep them self in reasonable shape, they also have to do that little extra to maintain the edge so that when regular season play begins they are totally ready to just knock it out. To go like sixty down the field, faster and quicker than any of the opposing teams players. So fast, they just won’t catch him.

The more you love what you are focusing on, the easier it is to operate at higher levels of achievement. Focus turns into flow which is the ultimate state. For anyone that is wondering what ‘flow’ really is, just think about an activity that you really enjoy. Something you can totally get wrapped up in and so deep that you get into a state of timelessness. You get so absorbed that you didn’t even notice the day go by. That's the flow state.

Personally, I like to put on some opera in the background and play it on a continuous loop so that is all I hear while I am thinking. It zones out the rest of the world because I can’t hear or see it. I can focus totally on my project in front of it. I have written books this way in short periods of time. Built homes with it. Built fences. Played sports being in total flow and peak performance.. Well except you know I didn’t have headphones on while skating down the ice. But you see what I mean. Many Artists find their zone and set up their environment that is conducive to total and one hundred percent creativity.

Ideas come from space. From places that they never ever expected. The next day when they get up and look at what they created, they themselves are astonished.

If you can find your own personal flow, it can be something that stays with you for the rest of your life. Running or walking or any form of vigorous exercise is amazing for getting into a flow state. I like to start my day like this. I don’t do it everyday but on the days that I do my exercise first are the days that I’m the most productive. The pace that I set in that first hour is the pace that is really set for the whole day. When the day is over, many times I am totally astonished at how much has gotten done. In fact it really gets exciting starting at 4 a.m. to see how much I can get done before 8 p.m. at night. Sometimes the ideas come so fast that you just keep on going because you want to capture all the solutions you are thinking of that create a new path for the next 24 months. 

For some people, they like to put the headphones on and close the door to the office. Then it's just them, the four walls and their project they are working on. It's an amazing process.

If you can break your goal down to measurable processes then it's just a matter of time whereby you can produce it and it shows up in your life.

The more you can speak yourself into existence and see your ultimate goal in your minds eye, the quicker and faster it will materialize.

Personally, in order to keep my dominant goals in front of me and in order to have less or no distractions at all, I will write out exactly what my goal is and looks like. To know that I have arrived at my goal, it has to be measurable. I decide on what the amount of that goal is and my period of time is to reach it. Once I have done that and think that the amount of that goal to achieve is reasonable, then what I will do is add 50 percent to that goal. Enough that it sounds a little out of reach and maybe even a bit impossible. Something that really gets me excited. When I raise the bar a little like that it tends to keep me awake at night. Each night you go to sleep your subconscious mind works overtime to come up with ideas and solutions to achieve it. I like 90 day plus goals like 90 to 120 days. Now my overall goal might be for a whole year, but within that goal I break it down to 3 or 4 parts. That way you can adjust your results up or down instead of waiting a whole year to shift things.

Write your goal out into a few or several sentences in a paragraph. Make it colorful so that each time you read it or say it, your mind just goes crazy imagining you come across the finish line.

Speaking about ‘What you talk about, you bring about’ I remember one of my first sales trainers I had when my young mind was learning the exciting field of sales.

‘Jim, I am telling  you, there is money on the streets out there!’

He used to repeat that all the time. Over and over and over. Even myself, when I was telling potential sales people about the potential in our sales organization, I would say “I’m telling you, there is money in the streets out there!”

Pretty soon other co-workers were repeating what I was saying and what my sales trainer was saying. They just kept hearing it every single day. Several times a day. Next thing you know one of the sales people told me he found some money on the street. Like 2 quarters or something like that. The following week we are in a meeting and a different sales person brings up that fact that he found some ‘money on the streets’ then another sales person in the meeting said ‘hey so did I’ and it just kept happening. Me too. One day I actually found a $50 dollar bill. All because our sales trainer started saying it. It became a part of our whole being talking about ‘the money on the streets out there’

So, I kinda went a little off track there but I just wanted to make a point. Here is a good one. How often do you think about someone and then all of a sudden that person calls you or you bump into them when you are out. That's why we want to get really clear. Very clear on what we want our outcome to be. It's good to speak it verbally too. It doesn’t have to be to everyone either. It can be just to yourself. 

If you are exact, precise and clear on your goal and see it in your mind and just totally own it, you cannot help but attract it into your life. I don’t mean sit and wait. Sure you have to work towards it and take some action on a daily basis, but what I am saying is that when you put it into  your mind and speak it to yourself as if you already owned it, you then put certain forces into action that move towards you in your favour.

In today's world it is so external that many are looking outward and forgetting about the power of their own mind and thoughts.

So try it for yourself. Instead of just reading this and putting it aside, take a few minutes today and write out 3 things that you really like to accomplish. Make one of them something that you have been thinking about for quite some time. Maybe you have been procrastinating on it because you weren’t sure how you were going to get it done. Write all three of them out on a 3 x 5 card. Get up each day and give yourself a few minutes while you are having your coffee or tea in the morning and just look and think about them. Maybe there is one thing you can do to get the ball rolling. I know this sounds like such a mundane activity but just taking the time to do this will be like sending a wave into the universe. Better yet, make the 3 things something that you have only dreamed about, but never really took action with. Something that really lights you up.

Something so big that if it happened it would just be a miracle.

Really stretch the heck out of your mind and dare yourself. Everything and everyone is connected. When a blade of grass is cut, the whole universe quivers.

So here is a summary to really rock your world:

1/ List 3 things that you would like to happen in your life. Something you would like to be, have or do.

2/ Put them each on their own 3 x 5 card or if you want to really get specific get a notebook scrapbook for each one.

3/ On the first page write the goal and in 3 or 4 sentences write out exactly what you are creating. Something that you could read to yourself each time you open your book.

4/ Collect photo’s and ideas and put them into each book that support your goal. Photos are amazing because our mind always thinks in pictures.

5/ Open your book each day and read out what you have written about your goal and browse through everything about that goal you have collected.

This is how we bring goals into our lives. This is how we completely and totally focus on something to bring it into existence. Little tiny goals and huge gargantuan goals. It all starts here. When you do this, you are creating space to bring these things in your life. You will find that certain goals really really excite you. As you focus on them, other things or activities in your life might just go to the wayside because they aren’t as important anymore. This is pure focus. The other activity you could perform is putting some low key music on in the background while you study your goals. Pour yourself your favorite cup of tea and just sit their and contemplate the possibilities of what could be. What you could manifest in your life. Its really an amazing exercise. Pretty soon, different activities or ideas will surface that will contribute to these goals and start to materialize in your life. In the quiet hours, this is how you do it.

In your own zone you can create the most incredible life for yourself.

It all starts with an idea. An idea you can focus on today, because what you focus on expands.

This is how fortunes are started. Books are written. Masterpieces created. By going into your own zone and seeing and feeling an idea and bringing and speaking it into existence through your own creating. You just have to be clear on what you want. Focus. Focus everyday until you bring it into your reality.