01. Its Just Focus
July 31st, 2005 by 
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The last 4 weeks I lost 8 pounds. Finally.
For most of my life, I have always been weight challenged. I always joke when I eat a little bit less that I am on diet. When friends asked me since when I had been dieting, I would smile and say, “since thirty years ago”.
Indeed, almost every year, I swore I would take off a few pounds, but every year, it seems that resolution went out of the window ( I would safely bet that now three weeks after new year, half of most people’s new years’ resolutions are already conveniently forgotten or abandoned).
Is it that hard to lose weight? Not really. We all know how. The reason it never happens is that I never got down to focusing on it. Something always come in ( great food, busyness, lazyness, etc) that oftens distracts and interferes with this goal.
I have always been able to accomplish my educational and business goals. Because I focus on it. But I guess the weight loss objective have always been like many people’s business and professional goal. They want to be rich, but their way of accomplishing it is by way of a vague, “maybe I will hit it in the lottery, or maybe I will meet a rich financier or uncle that will take a gamble with my talents.” sort of thing. Nothing concrete, nothing focused, just one of those dozen things that you hope will happen to you. Like maybe some great drug company will invent a drug that will allow you to lose weight without any exercise or diet…. sort of thing.
And that is where we fail.
Do we know the way to wealth? the way to happiness? Yes, we all know the way — we just don’t have the focus and discipline to travel it.
It has been said that the sun has been shining over the earth for millions of years but has never burned anything. Yet focus a little bit of these sun’s rays using a magnifying lens, and in minutes, you can muster enough heat to start a fire.
Are you accomplishing your goals? If not, its probably JUST FOCUS.
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October 19th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
[...] A few months ago, I wrote an article, Its Just Focus. in which I basically noted that for 2 weeks early this year, my only focus was to lose weight, and I did it. Well, sometimes, it is easier said than done and knowing it sometimes does not always mean doing it . Which is sometimes I don’t have a very good opinion of people who read self improvement books or go to management seminars, and when presented with certain principles, say with certainty that they are not really learning anything new. Of course, most principles are NOT new, and there is scant hope that even when hearing a well known guru, or paying thousands of dollars to attend a convention, that you will ever hear anything new about how to live your life. Most self evident truths have been with us for thousands of years. The important thing is not to know, but to constantly fortify and remind ourselves of the things that really matter. that is why until now, I constantly read and write self improvement things — the basis of this blog is really not only to tell you, but also to constantly remind myself how important some of this principles is — even to myself. [...]
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January 30th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
[...] This quote from the great thinker who have grappled with the most complex things in the universe, and in a way he has a point. He is great not because he was a genius, but because he knew where to focus his genius – in things that would make a difference. [...]
January 30th, 2006 at 2:43 pm
[...] The book makes the premise ( which I wholeheartedly agree) that there is never time to do everything on your to do list, and there will never be. Thus, instead of reading so many books on how to organize your life, and try to do the yeoman’s job of chasing the completion of all tasks, you have to accept the fact that if you cannot get everything done, you might as well focus on the most important task first. [...]
October 19th, 2006 at 3:51 pm
I went down from 80kg to 69kg in a month from a diet of oats in the morning and greens in the evening. All washed down by plain water. Nothing bulky and starchy during lunchtime. Exercise…just power walks….4 times a week. The result? Almost can do a somersault whilst putting on my shirt..whatever.
The regime was quite spartan. But there was a necessity for it (feelings of stiffness, vertigo, etc..), then came the focus.
October 22nd, 2006 at 7:27 am
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April 23rd, 2007 at 9:57 am
DITTO for me also about being weight challenged until about 2 years ago when I was determined to focus on it 75% of the time over the last 2 years. We came back from from the States Oct. 2004 after focusing on our only daughter’s education when she graduated from Fairfield high school. Then I was determined to travel to places I’d always dreamed about going AND on losing weight. I went from 235lbs ( 107kg ) down to a low of 169lbs (77kg ) by cutting out everything ( almost except when I’m traveling )WHITE, in otherwords simple carbohydrates, No white rice, no white noodles / pasta, no white bread no regular softdrinks, after late NOV. 2005 NO BEER ( ARAYYYY )and no animal fat like the skin of chicken or pork & beef fat. And I kept in motion as much as possible withOUT a really keeping a disciplined exercise routine.
But I have climbed up a bit this last Christmas season so weigh 184lbs ( 82kg) but have renewed determination to GET DOWN NOW during the last 6 weeks of Filipino summer. Time with tell