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Guest post by: Jim Stovall

Article Overview: Focus is the key to turning energy into productivity. It turns our dreams into goals into reality.

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Focus is the key to turning energy into productivity. It turns our dreams into goals into reality.

On an extremely hot day, the sun will beat down with enough intensity to give you a very severe sunburn. But that’s about it. That same energy when captured and reflected in a magnifying glass can create an intense white-hot flame that can be put to any use or task you would choose.

In business today, there exists a trendy school of thought called “line extension.” This school of thought tells us that if you have a successful company that has made a name for itself manufacturing snow tires, you should be able to take your name and attach it to other products and experience the same degree of success, thereby extending your line. While this occasionally works, it is more often a well-thought-out expansion plan, not just re-labeling another product with an expectation of re-creating former success.

Companies or individuals that achieve world-class success in any area, focus intensely on that area. Too often, the line extension mentality is simply a cop-out when the going gets tough, and the grass appears greener in some other pasture.

Before you diminish or change your focus, you have to ask yourself, “If we can’t make it here, what makes us believe we can make it somewhere else?” If you are truly expanding out of success, that is quite different, but if you are thinking that success will come to you easier on some other path, you are probably in for a rude awakening.

Every individual or corporation that experiences success does it with a singular focus, and then out of that success they build another success and one to follow that.

Every triumph comes with its own price and degree of sacrifice. If you take a detour trying to
avoid the toll, you will quite often find the going gets even tougher and the toll still remains to be paid. For this reason, we should never get the “How are we going to do it?” mixed up in the “What are we going to do?” decision. This is always a mistake that is made by people who live lives of quiet desperation, as it has been so ably described.

You are going to pay the price, no matter what course you pursue, so you might as well pursue the course that creates the excitement and the passion for you. Then, simply focus on your goal and the activities you know it will take to get you there. You will find that the shortest route to your ultimate destiny will take you directly through the most intimidating and daunting task that lies before you. But, as always, I am convinced that if you have a dream inside of you, it was put there because you have the capacity to perform every task necessary to reach that goal.

Today is the day!

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