Finding Your Focus

First things first, I would like to thank Natalie Sisson of The Suitcase Entrepreneur for coming up with this wonderful challenge and inspiring so many people to take up this challenge. Blogging has never been my cup of tea and honestly, I am equally happy and scared to death to take this 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge and I believe on the 10th day, I’ll be a completely different individual and this challenge will bring some major changes in my life.

Since childhood, I always deemed people who suited up and went for a 9–5 as crazy. (this sounds crazy too!). I could never digest the fact that how could people go to a place everyday where they work day in and day out to make lots of money for someone else and feel grateful for that opportunity? It sounded absurd to me and it still does. I believe doing something what one loves and also getting paid for it is the most legitimate definition of freedom to me. The very idea of having the freedom to do what one wishes to and making a living out of it is so liberating. But in order to achieve success in any field, be it teaching, cooking, blogging or even a simple task like arranging your closet requires a key element and that is Focus. Focus is an important part of being productive and staying true to your vision. But often times, we all get distracted by our daily chores or something or the other in life and eventually lose track of our goals and desires. We all have our own excuses and reasons for our inability to focus on the work at hand and eventually end up blaming people around us or the circumstances.

Talking about focus, here I am already running 6 days late for the blog challenge. Rings any bell? Doesn’t it sound familiar? Yes, Procrastination. I often find myself making excuses as to why am I not getting the things done which I set for myself. I start my week by scheduling and planning out my week as to what are the things which need to get done and end up with frustration and regret at the end of the week. Now that I’ve taken up this blog challenge and pondered upon what is stopping me from checking off my to-do lists, I realize that I procrastinate and keep my work for the next day and then next , is because I lack determination. I wish to achieve my goals but I end up procrastinating and this is a very frustrating situation, since I want to do a certain thing but cannot get enough inner strength and motivation to take action.

Another reason which holds me back is my fear of failure. What if I don’t get it done? What if it doesn’t end up like the way it is supposed to? What if I fail? There are so many what ifs which hold me back and eventually I end up losing track of my vision. I was very hesitant to take up this challenge because firstly, I have never tried blogging and secondly, what if I fail in this? What if it doesn’t go like the way I want it to? But now, seeing myself taking the first step by taking this challenge and creating a blog and writing almost 200 or something words makes me feel so proud of myself and has restored my lost confidence and motivation.

Now that I know what are the elements which were holding me back for so long, it’s time to work on it. I don’t really know how to work my way through these hurdles but I am up for this challenge and I will find my focus.

I am finding the focus for moving forward to achieve my goals and manifesting my vision into reality.

This blog post is in response to Natalie’s 10 Day Freedom Plan Blog Challenge Day 1