Most
of us never really focus because we don't know the power of focus. We
constantly feel a kind of irritating psychic chaos because we keep trying to
think of too many things at once. There's always too much up there on the
screen.
There
was an interesting motivational talk on this subject given by former Dallas
Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson to his football player:
"
I told them that if I laid a two-by four plank across the room, everybody there
would walk across it and not fall, because our focus would be that we were
going to walk that two-by-four. But if I put that same two-by-four plank 10
stories high between two buildings only a few would make it, because the focus
would be on failing. Focus is everything. The team that is more focused today
is the team that will win this game."
Johnson
told his team not to be distracted by the crowed, the media, or the possibility
of losing, but to focus on each play of the game itself just as if it were a
good practice session.
The
Cowboys won the game by 52-17.
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