When I was a child, I was taking diving lessons. No matter what I did, I could not do a backflip. The coach taught me something that has stayed with me for decades: Look at where you want to go. My coach taught me to look where I wanted my body to go and it would follow. If I was ever going to do do a backflip, I needed to look above and behind myself as far as possible when leaving the diving board. I did, and it worked!
This experience taught me a valuable lesson: we tend to move towards whatever we focus on. Whether we face challenging situations or want to avoid becoming like someone else, our focus determines our direction. Whatever we feed grows, even if we are trying to avoid it. This applies to both positive and negative aspects of our lives. If we focus on the negative (even to avoid it), we see our lives through a lens of negativity, but if we focus on the positive, we can find happiness.
Similarly, when it comes to our goals, keeping our eyes fixed on them is essential. If we focus on our goals for long enough, we will eventually achieve them. To stay focused, having a life mission statement to read regularly can help us become the person we aspire to be. Even if we don’t know how it will happen, as we focus on our goals, opportunities will arise, and we should take advantage of them.
So what is the takeaway here? We should keep our focus on the things we want to achieve and the people we want to become. It’s essential to do the best we can with what we have at the moment and keep focusing on our goals. With time and determination, we will end up where we want to be.