Laser Focus: Creating A Vision

Many people make resolutions for the New Year with the best intentions to maintain them. Slowly, moving away from January 1st, these resolutions become a distant thought and another letdown. Statistics report that day 21 is the marker of whether we have followed through with what we promised ourselves or not.

In my observation, people are looking for a quick fix, a way to bypass hard work. We are a culture of instant gratification and hard work is, well, too hard. Nothing worthwhile is instantaneous. It takes patience. It takes love. It takes consistency. It takes laser focus and “blissapline” (a You First Now-ism that means energetically nurturing consistency to meet your goals).

In the book Atomic Habits by James Clear, the author mentioned a concept called the 1% Rule. To summarize, if you can imagine 2 parallel boats traveling in the same direction and one boat changing course 1 degree, it may appear for a while that no change has taken place. Yet, over time, the boats dock on different sides of the Earth.

Humans need positive reinforcement to continue a new behavior. We want proof, to see, feel, and hear the changes, immediately otherwise it becomes too much work.

What’s the answer? TRUST and laser focus! Adopting the notion of trust could be a new concept. Doing your inventory, trusting you are on the right path for yourself, encourages you to keep focused, and let things happen and unfold. Remember you are not in charge of the outcome just the mission!