Hocus Pocus FOCUS!

Today we ask the question What is truly important to you and how will you focus on accomplishing your goals?

Many of you who know me, know that I have been searching for a way to make a living from home. I know that I am not alone in this endeavor: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison and many other successful people failed multiple times before they finally succeeded. Many of us get up and go to work five or six days a week, some of us have multiple jobs, and we feel like we are spinning my wheels and getting nowhere. Sometimes we are pulled in so many directions, it's hard to focus on one thing or what is important to us. That includes me too. A good example of that is this blog that I started several months ago and have not posted a thing since spring!!

Well, we all know how that goes: you get busy with work and family, errands and sometimes even friends and before you know it, your day off is over and you have to get back to the grindstone. It's a vicious circle that has no end. We compromise our peace of mind and our health and our spirit by continuing on the same fast track every day.

In addition to that, the stress of the holidays are upon us and we are soon to be concerned with shopping and cooking huge dinners and hosting or going to family gatherings. Yes, this is all fun and most of us truly enjoy the holidays. We have our childhood memories of this that we carry into our adult lives and want the same for our own children. But to what cost? What about those of us who are on a strict budget with no money to spare for a large dinner party or even a few presents for our loved ones? What are you going to do this holiday season? Are you going to go out on an already weak limb and add more to your credit card debt by charging things you know you cannot possibly pay for when the bill comes in? Or will you instead give a gift of something you knit or crocheted yourself or give a small item of baked goods or something you painted?

My husband Brian is very focused. He is no couch potato by any means. It is amazing what he gets done in a day. There is plenty of work around the house to be done, the cars need to be winterized, the leaves need to be raked, the bills need to get paid, the dishes need to be washed, then there's the laundry and next thing you know the kids are home from school with homework and activities and friends and the list goes on. So what gives? How does he do it? He makes a list of the things that are important for him to accomplish on a given day and sticks to it. If a project is not finished by day's end, that item goes to the top of the next day's list in order of importance and he starts over. There are plenty of times when he feels like he didn't get enough done, but can also feel satisfied that he has made some headway in one area or another.

I am interested to hear how you FOCUS on What's Important to You. Please share your thoughts and comments, whether you are focused or not, so others can find a way to get by without losing a piece of themselves in this crazy world we all survive in.