Its Just focus

The last 4 weeks I lost 8 pounds.  Finally.

For most of  my life, I have always been weight challenged.  I always joke when I eat a little bit less that I am on diet.  When friends asked me since when I had been dieting, I would smile and say, "since thirty years ago".

Indeed, almost every year, I swore I would  take off a few pounds, but every year, it seems that resolution went out of the window  ( I would safely bet that now three weeks after new year, half of most people's new years' resolutions are already conveniently forgotten or abandoned).

Is it that hard to lose weight? Not really.  We all know how.  The reason it never happens is that I never got down to focusing on it.  Something always come in ( great food, busyness, lazyness,  etc) that oftens distracts and interferes with this goal.

I have always been able to accomplish my educational and business goals.  Because I focus on it.  But I guess the weight loss objective have always been like many people's business and professional goal.  They want to be rich, but their way of accomplishing it is by way of a vague, "maybe I will hit it in the lottery, or maybe I will meet a rich financier or uncle that will take a gamble with my talents." sort of thing.  Nothing concrete, nothing focused, just one of those dozen things that you hope will happen to you.  Like maybe some great drug company will invent a drug that will allow you to lose weight without any exercise or diet....  sort of thing.

And that is where we fail.

Do we know the way to wealth?  the way to happiness?  Yes, we all know the way -- 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, its probably JUST FOCUS.