Keep Your Eyes On The Prize

Hi there,

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
Henry Ford

For every prize, their is always a price to pay. The prize is that great thing that you desire to accomplish and the price is the process involved or the cost of attaining that so called great thing that you desire. What then, have you gotten your eyes on ; the prize or the price. If you are like most successful folks, then you've gotten your eyes on the prize. But the unsuccessful folks, have a different focus. Their eyes are always on the price.

Where your focus is, determines the energy or drive that follows it. Fixing your eyes on the prize releases a greater momentum that secures the attainment of that prize while fixing your eyes on the price, drains your energy and drive to attain the prize.

Consider two athletes for instance, who are both competing for a particular race, one fixes his eyes on the gold medal and the honor and reputation that attends to being a champion, so he is enthusiastic about the process or the price he needs to pay in reaching that prize. He is willing to go through the rigorous trainings and exercises that will enable him reach that particular target he has set. The cost doesn't look bigger or too demanding to him, so far it gets him what he wants, he is committed to doing everything necessary and right to earning that prize.

While the other athlete is finding it difficult to commit himself to the process involved in getting the prize. He is stuck about the whole process, he sees the rigorous trainings and exercises as something too unbearable for him to accept and he is already complaining bitterly and even contemplating on the need to quit, the whole thing. Why? Because all he sees is the price and not the prize.

What exactly is my point? It is this, "keeping your eyes on the prize makes you enjoy paying the price, but keeping your eyes on the price makes getting the prize unattainable"

The choice is yours to make.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.