Staying Focused.

With all the distractions around me, I am finding it increasingly difficult to stay focused on my goals. Another thing that is preventing me from staying focused is the lack of results. You know what I mean, you diet and gain weight, you do more work in the office and keep getting further behind. That sort of thing. Ironically, that was the subject of our sermon yesterday; “Staying focused when it doesn’t appear that you are making any headway”.

We had a super weekend. My son and I both did great at the Farmers Market. The crowd was a little thinner than the week before but there were more people buying instead of just looking. Saturday night, my wife and I attended a drop in at a friend’s house. This friend is from Trinidad and since I have known her has always been warning me about certain foods which might be too spicy for me. Well I like spicy food so up until Saturday night, the warnings weren’t needed. Well she had some kind of sauce for the fish she prepared and she said “Watch out Greg, that sauce is really spicy”. I thought to myself, yea right, I bet it isn’t that bad so I put about a teaspoon full on each piece of fish. That stuff was light liquid fire and my lips and tongue were throbbing all evening. Finally some really hot stuff.

Like I said, Sunday morning, we went to Church and we had another very young preacher filling in. Neither my wife nor I liked his style but the message was great and we noticed that my youngest son was enjoying the sermon. I can see where he appeals to a younger crowd and maybe that is a good thing. His message was clear though, God doesn’t like quitters so don’t get distracted and keep on keeping on.

This morning, I headed out ready for a new week and a new focus in my life. As I got into my car, I noticed how neat and clean everything was. I had washed all the cars on Sunday afternoon and surprisingly the inside of my car was even tidy. About 5 miles down the road, I felt the need to have a sip of water so I reached over for the water bottle that I keep in my gym bag. Uh-oh, no gym bag. No wonder the car looked so tidy. My gym bag was at home in the living room.
So I hit the brakes, and headed back home for my gym bag. This put me 10 minutes behind so I really had to hurry to get my workout in. When I arrived at the gym, I literally ran inside and started working out. No girls I didn’t count that run in as part of my workout. I stayed on the elliptical trainer for the full 30 minutes and got my workout done. I saved time by doing my cool down in and after my shower but I don’t think I stink. Well I hope not anyway. I think I will keep my distance just in case.

When I got to work, I noticed that someone had brought in a bunch of chicken. There was also a strawberry cheese cake on the kitchen counter. Oh-Noooooo its office lunch day. I was supposed to bring in something and I forgot. I just searched the freezer and there is a huge bag of French fries so it’s French fries instead of potato salad today. I really am focused today, really I am.
I think I have too much going on in my life to focus on any one thing. My plan is to keep track of where my time goes this week and then sit down and see where I can make improvements. I need to make lots of room too because we are thinking of taking Latin Dance lessons soon. It is something that we can do as a family. Yes kids you will be going with us. Pretty soon you will be seeing us on “Dancing with the Stars, not so famous edition”.

Oh I almost forgot. If you are reading this, please leave a Bleep. What is a Bleep? Well it is a term that I coined. That’s right, I coined it so don’t even think about getting credit for it. A Bleep is a comment that you leave on someone’s Blog post. It is kind of like a Tweet on Twitter. So here is a little something to help you remember.

“It is better to Bleep on Blogger than Tweet on Twitter.” At least that is the way I see it. And as for the poster, I don't know who said that, I stole it off the Internet. Maybe I need to come up with a bleepin poster. :)

Have a great day,

Greg