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In order to succeed you must have long-term focus


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In order to succeed you must have long-term focus. 

 Most of the challenges that we have in our personal lives - like indulging constantly in overeating, drinking, or smoking to feeling overwhelmed and giving up on our dreams - come from a short-term focus.

  Success and failure  are not overnight experiences. It's all the small decisions along the way that cause people to fail. It's failure to manage our mental and emotional states. It's failure to control what we focus on. Conversely, success is the result of making small decisions : deciding to hold yourself to a higher standard, deciding to contribute, deciding to feed your mind rather than allowing the environment to control you - these small decisions create the life experience we call success. No individual or organization that has become successful has done so with short-term focus. 

Sports shoes As a society, we're so focused on instantaneous gratification that our short-term solutions often become long-term problems. Our kids have trouble paying attention in school long enough to think, memorize, and learn partly because they've become addicted to instantaneous gratification from constant exposure to things like video games, Television etc.
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