Discovering focus
I have always known that I lacked the ability to focus very well, I get distracted easily and I can never just do one thing at a time, even the decision to write this was spontaneous as I wanted to do some house designs for some ideas ive been tinkering with in sketchup. I had just finished a workout and later I want to do some photography(attempt it anyways)
Realising this has been pretty easy, finding the root cause and not the root reason is turning out to be much harder, I always thought that I was just bored easily but thats not exactly the case, I get excited easily too. Right now my own mind is telling me about all the other things I could be doing right now... Im not joking, its quite difficult to stick to one thing when your always thinking about something else.
The past few days I have been thinking about a Bruce Lee quote that I quite liked,
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10000 times." - Bruce Lee
This has been more evident to me lately in work, as I have to focus to get anything done, I had hoped that this would translate to my out of work experience but sadly lately it has not been the case, I do notice small improvements and on way to improve is simply by blocking other things out of your mind for the time that you want to focus, again, very simple idea but to apply it for someone like me is incredibly difficult as I just want to do everything all at once and its is like a severe need or want to do other things, experience everything.
Now since I am older(I think? At least my body is...) I realise that you have to just do one thing at a time to get anything out of it, not just “faffing around” as my father would say. Concentrated effort will produce consistent results.
So after that, the conclusion is that you have to really pick what you want to do, at least for periods, maybe phases is the right description? A phase of being into something may not be a bad thing, you really get into or develop a liking for a subject and during that there is the potential to develop a lot of knowledge or skills in that area.
I think I will leave my rather elementary ramble there for the day.
