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Thursday, January 27, 2005
Ng: It’s just focus (on life)
By Wilson Ng
Wired Desktop
AT LAST. In the last four weeks, I lost eight pounds. Finally. For most of my life, I have been weight challenged. Whenever I eat a little bit less, I always joke that I am on a diet. When friends ask me since when I have been dieting, I smile and say, “since 30 years ago.”
Indeed, almost every year, I swore I would take off a few pounds, but every year, it seemed that that resolution went out of the window (I bet that now, three weeks after the new year, half of most people’s new year’s resolutions have already been forgotten or abandoned).
Is it that hard to lose weight? Not really. We all know how. The reason it never happens is that we never get down to focusing on it. Something always comes up (great food, being busy, laziness etc.) that distracts and interferes with this goal.
I have always been able to accomplish my educational and business goals. Because I focus on them.
But I guess the weight loss objective has always been like many people’s business and professional goals. They want to be rich, but their way of accomplishing it is by thinking: “Maybe I will hit it big in the lottery, or maybe I will meet a rich financier or uncle that will take a gamble on my talents.”
Nothing concrete, nothing focused, just one of those things you hope will happen to you. Like maybe some drug company will invent a drug that will allow you to lose weight without exercise or diet.
And that is why we fail. Do we know the way to wealth? to happiness? Yes, we do—we just don’t have the focus and discipline to travel it.
It has been said that the sun has been shining over the earth for millions of years but has never burned anything. Yet focus a little bit of these sun’s rays using a magnifying lens, and in minutes, you can muster enough heat to start a fire.
Are you accomplishing your goals? If not, it’s probably JUST FOCUS.
(www.bizdrivenlife.net)
(January 27, 2005 issue)
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