Focus

I have been actively learning and practicing the Klemmer work for a while now and there are several sentences which I like the best and I will quote them below for my own references later.

1. "In this world, the most committed win."
2. "The fairest way to measure anything is by results, often harsh, always fair."
3. "We are never without the ability to choose in life."
4. "Compassionate Samurai anchor reality to their vision. Average people anchor their vision to reality."

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Out of the several chapters of the "Compassionate Samurai" book that I have read so far, the chapter "Focus" was the one that touched me the most.

I had realized that I needed to work on my focus before reading this chapter. I felt that I had so many parallel leads in my mind and each of them would take up some memory space while I was trying to process something in my brain at any given time. It actually slowed me down significantly in terms of the efficiency of any given task that I needed to work on, yet each of the thoughts appeared to be so interesting that I did not want to completely erase them from my system.

The book shed light on me through Brian telling one of his personal stories regarding how he had totally ignored the existence of a new 54-inch TV in his living room, since he was too focused on his thoughts. Brian was trying to let people know that you should watch out for the 54-inch TV opportunities in life while being focused, as it is quite possible to miss it when you are too focused (like what Brian himself did). In his words, you should be "simultaneously focused and have 360-degree awareness". But I was totally the contrary to Brian. I seemed to have always been looking out for any possible 54-inch TV opportunities in life so that I failed to focus on any given task on hand. This could also be harmful.

A couple of things that I will be working on as suggested by Brian:

1. "Focus on what's in front of you and then switch... The speed with which you can shift your focus is an ability you want to spend time developing." 
2. When having a problem to be solved, focus on a solution rather than the problem. Ask the question "How can I?" instead of "Can I?"

Now my focus is to focus.