February 2018 Article - "In The End" Written By Moses Alexander

In The End

How often do you have something you want to achieve (i.e. lose weight, gain muscle, start a business, travel more) … only to end up confused by all of the options in front of you and never make progress? This is especially true in health, fitness, and medicine, where every person and company seems to believe it is their duty to make things more complex. Every workout routine you find is the best one. Every diet expert says their plan is the optimal one.

This frustrates me to no end because while all the experts are busy debating about which option is best, the people who want to actually improve their lives (you and me) are left frustrated by all of the conflicting information.

The end result is that we feel like we can't focus or that we're focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.

I think it's time we change that. Here's how… And so today MOSES ALEXANDER is writing on…

 How to Focus and Concentrate Better

Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: all you need to do is commit to one thing.

In the beginning, you don't even have to succeed. You just need to get started. Starting before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people.

Most of the time, the ability to get started and commit to a task is the only thing you need to do to focus better. Most people don't have trouble with focusing. They have trouble with deciding.

Have you ever had a task that you absolutely had to get done? What happened? You got it done. Maybe you procrastinated, but once you are committed to doing it, you got it finished.  In other words: making progress in your health, your work, and your life isn't about learning how to focus and concentrate better, it's about learning how to choose and commit to a specific task.

You have the ability to focus; you just need to choose what to direct it towards instead of acting like the lion and dividing your attention among the four legs of the chair.

Want to start a business? You can! Sure, you'll be uncomfortable. Every entrepreneur is uncertain. You don't need to learn a new strategy or figure out how to focus better. You just need to commit to making it happen. Take the first step and trust that you'll figure out how to take the second step when you need to do so.

We all have the ability to focus and concentrate, but only if we decide what is important to us and what we want to commit to accomplishing. The only wrong choice is no choice.

Moses Alexander once wrote “In the end we only count our achievements; we only choose who we celebrate it with”.

Stop Gazing at the Chair

Life isn't a dress rehearsal. Whether you know it or not, you're already in the ring. We all are. Most of the time, we sit quietly, gazing at the chair in front of us, silently debating about which leg is the most important.

          It doesn't have to be that way. If you have somewhere you want to go, something you want to accomplish, someone you want to become… then make a decision. If you're clear about where you want to go, the rest of the world will either help you get there or get out of the way. Both of those are useful.

          You don't have to do it all at once, but there is something that you need to do now. Something that's calling you, something that's important to you, something that you're destined to do. I don't know what it is, but you do. Swipe the chair out of the way and choose it.

Moses Alexander