This is a great thought to ponder this morning. Many of us are big on the recital of the word focus. However, it smirks of the misfortune of putting the cart before the horse because many of us do not understand what comes first; we hardly even know that vision precedes focus. It is impossible to be focused on something that you do not know. You cannot have focus without first having a vision.
The problem with not focusing or with a lack of focus is the absence of a clear and compelling vision. If you know where you are headed, you should not have a problem focusing on it. This is just the starting point, really. There is more.
Vision is a definite chief aim. Vision can be understanding. Vision can be a knowing. Vision can be equated with imagination. Vision is not just what we see with the eyes. Vision is what we see with the eye. Vision arrests you and calls your attention from the crowd to something that many others are not seeing. It is a sudden awareness that shows up and stays with you, waiting for you to act on it. Vision first separates you to itself.
That is where it resides--inside of you. If it is not in you, it does not gain clarity because you would not even ponder it, welcome it for showing up in you, appreciate it and then set out to engaging it for the purpose it came and the service to deploy it towards.
This is where you begin to focus on it. The point where you realise that you have something in you that is worthy of consideration, that is worth thinking about, that will extract commitment and every other resource from you, that will earn you pain because it would take you off the place of comfort, but yet, you accept it and demonstrate acceptance by willing to pursue it. Then you have arrested focus.
Once vision is clear and compelling, it finds focus. This is automatic. Just like a true vision, focus is energy that pulls other qualities like the passion to pursue relentlessly regardless of nothing tangible to hold on to.
Passion fuels you to pursue. Passion is the oil for the engine. A relentless passion does not burn out until cause has become effect, until abstract has become concrete, until potential has become actual, and mere thought has become reality or till creativity earns innovation.
Do note that a vision is not compelling because it comes complete. You may not have every piece of the puzzle in place. You may have only 50 or 60 or whatever percentage. That is where gut feeling comes in. Like the seed of faith, the little you have leads you on and with the passion energy, you keep going and as you do that, you gain more clarity.
These qualities attract each other and one another. They provide such synergy that the visionary is not able to hold back anything. The visionary deploys all that is required: capital, human in terms of support or collaboration, monetary, time to study, time to wait even through uncertainties, and the consistency to keep pursuing.
Vision precedes focus. This is the key. Without these two first being in place, it is difficult to earn any valuable accomplishment. This insight is essential for growth to happen.
Find vision. Find focus. Find passion. Commit to the vision. Expend other essential resources. And then, manifest vision through relentless pursuit.
