We hear and read a lot that focus is required to succeed in life. Is it really focus we are talking about or attention?
There is a small difference between focus and attention. Focus is about one spot. Attention can be widespread.
What actually is happening is, people are not attentive and are trying to focus. So they keep on changing directions frequently and so are frustrated. Life gets confused. 95 % of energy gets wasted because we are not focused.
Why we are not focussed, because we are not attentive. Most of us carry on with life without experiencing the weather, fragrance of flowers, taste of food we eat and our surroundings. If we can keep our energies organized, seemingly impossible can be achieved.
Some people get success more than others. This is because they have paid attention while others have not and so they have missed a few oppurtunities.Being attentive means being aware of everything around us.
If you are keen about everything, you will notice what others do not and people will call you leader. So just be super attentive, not about anything particular.
If we focus without being attentive, we may later realize, as most of us do , that we have focused on wrong thing.
Therefore first have attention – general grasp of everything, awareness of everything. Then develop particular interest and then focus.
In fact, We have to focus because our attention is not keen enough. Make your attention so keen that you don’t require a focus, your being keenly attentive itself will not allow anything to be missed by you.
Attention is just mental alertness which you can switch on and off. There is difference between alertness and awareness. Awareness is life, the more aware are you, the more life is in you. You cannot switch it on and off.
With your five senses, you perceive what is around you. As your intensity of energy increases, the penetration of your perception increases. As it happens, the quality of your experience changes. How clearly you can see indicates how successful you are in life. More the lack of clarity, more are the blunders you will make.
If you want to increase the quality of your attention, stop being judgmental. Do not be discriminatory. Just pay attention to anything and everything. When you start seeing things as they are, you start making sensible decisions. So what is required is raising the level of attention as then there are unlimited possibilities. Focus limits the possibilities.
Interesting perspective!