Snap out of it: Don’t let the Fog Clog your Focus.

Previously on Snap out of it click here. Let’s run this series on ‘staying focus’ by Revered Bob Gass as Thursday Snap out of it which will take us for five weeks unless otherwise occurs. This should enable us not to let little discomfort distract us from great achievement.
"You become effective by being selective. It’s human nature to get distracted. We’re like gyroscopes, spinning around at a frantic pace but not getting anywhere. Without a clear purpose you keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches etc, hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart. You think, ‘this time it will be different,’ but it doesn’t solve your real problem lack of focus.

The power of focusing can be seen in light. With a magnifying glass the rays of the sun can set paper on fire. But when the light is focused even more as a laser beam, it can cut through steel. Nothing is as potent as a focus life.

The men and women who make the greatest difference in life are the most focused. For instance, the Apostle Paul said, ‘I am bringing all my energies to bear on this one thing’ (Philippians 3:13&15TLB). Paul obsession was to make Christ known. So if you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Turn away from even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity.

Poet William Matthew wrote, ‘one well cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth a hundred shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day when so many things are clamouring for attention is concentration to bend our energy to one point. And to go directly to that point, looking neither right nor left.’ Does focus comes easily or naturally? No, it’s a discipline that must be practiced every day".

Cheers!