quick search of Wikipedia was so intense, the ships burst
tells us that “Hocus Pocus” into flames and the Greeks were
can mean “Contrived spared an invasion.
Nonsense.” Years ago a magician
would call out the words to My own children discovered one
deflect attention, as he amazed day, how the benign summer sun
the crowd with his could be focused with a
sleight-of-hand. He knew of magnifying glass, making the rays
course, that if the crowd’s strong enough to start a fire.
attention was not focused on his Only my prompt action that day
actions, his “magic” would go averted disaster.
undetected.
Today, while on my morning walk,
Our politicians have honed this I saw a magnificent Bald Eagle
technique to a fine art, as they glide by. Suddenly he turned,
routinely jostle our attention extended his talons and dropped
from one issue to another. They unto the lake. With his eagle
know that it is difficult for us eye, he had spotted a fish
to maintain focus when the issues swimming near the surface and
keep shifting, with each focusing intently, he picked up
evening’s newscast. Who has the his breakfast with what seemed to
courage to tell it like much of be remarkable ease.
it is, contrived nonsense?
Many of us have had the
Stories of the magic of focus experience of setting goals at
have been told for millennia. It the New Year. Then, when the year
is said that Archimedes made a is almost gone, we may find a
wonderful mirror, which focused file long forgotten, somewhere in
the suns rays on an attacking our computer, listing the
Roman fleet. The beam of light unaccomplished goals. We may then
tell ourselves, “Hey, I really from re-living the past or
wanted to accomplish these.” Now creating phantom fears of what
with the renewed power of focus, may come. So today, resolve with
a goal that was really just a me to put aside the hocus pocus.
vague wish becomes doable and Now, as it has always been, the
quickly gets done. true magic is in the power of
focus.
These random thoughts on the
power of focus helps to remind me To your prosperity.
that focus is a tool that I can
use constructively in many areas KM
of my life. A focus on the
present moment will pull me back
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