Take a look at the intensity in this chaps' face, he must really care about where his artillery shells land I guess, to effectively kill his enemy and ensure there's no collateral damage, like any decent artilleryman should. But that face - Sheer determination, and intensity of focus. Good on him!
I built this Sluban artillery piece today (Sluban is a Lego copy that makes military sets because Lego won't do it.) Anyway, when I saw the look on the figures' face it reminded me of intense focus, determination and a strong will to succeed...it reminded me of myself and many others I've come across in my life. Determined, go-getters.
I've been that way in my personal life and certainly in my professional life where the level of focus meant as much to me as it did to others; as a leader of men and women, a lack of focus on my part could go badly for those who were being led and that was never something I was willing to accept. I'll admit to making that face myself too, not all the time though and I had other expressions as well, unlike this laser-focused fellow. Although, I do tend to look like that a lot.
I can't attribute my success solely to one thing be it intense laser focus, learned or natural skill, ownership and discipline or any other thing; it has been a combination of all of them with a good sprinkle, (a lavish sprinkle), of failure as well; I'm ok with that because failure is the first step to success, for the smart people anyway.
I wonder what focus others have had, you for instance; has it been easy to apply or difficult and to what areas of life has it made the greatest impact if any. If you want to comment about that or anything else please join the discussion if you're keen.
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I think that having a clear goal or objective is what has made me very disciplined, especially as an entrepreneur. I've always been disciplined, ever since I was a child at school, and the combination of discipline and perseverance have been my cornerstones, especially at work, where I've had to apply them most forcefully. I've also learned to design good strategies and know how to change them along the way if they don't work for me.
I didn't know you were an entrepreneur.
I was for a long time, then I changed fields, but it's always good to diversify.
Same for me. If I have a clear written goal, I am much more disciplined and focused.
That is what makes it possible to achieve goals.
Interesting! I've never heard of this company before, but I might need to check them out!
Lepin is also fairly good. If you look on Aliexpress there are several interesting off brand sellers with military and other unique sets. I like the little swat team/navy seal commando minifgures on there, they are pretty cool.
I've not heard of Lepin, I'll look it up.
This one is also good: https://www.brickmania.com/
Good to know! Thank you!
They're not as good as Lego but good in that military stuff is available, so I buy it now and then.
I understand.
I'm sitting at the laptop in the office, focused (with a facial expression like your figurine) looking at the monitor while writing an email and looking at the project budget... A colleague from the HR sector approaches me and half-jokingly asks: "Why do you have such a serious face, why don't you smile?". I look at her, fold my laptop, and give her a smile. But I can't resist answering her: "Dear colleague, how idiotic would I look to someone passing by my office, if I had a smile on my face all the time, while looking at the monitor?" Colleagues would think that I was either watching a movie or that I was crazy or both. "Well, come on, get out of my office, leave me alone to complete the task, and put those HR questions of yours to someone who is constantly laughing in front of the monitor, then ask him what he finds funny..."
When I'm doing something serious, I try to focus so that the events around me don't distract me, and then I have this look 🙂
I think it's rude and ignorant when someone in the office walks by and says something like that, "why don't you smile." They have no idea what the other person may be going through and suggesting that they smile is inappropriate, snide and insensitive - a total dick statement.
My ability to focus has changed over the years. It feels the older I get, the more distractions there are that try to steal my focus.
For me, it's easier to focus when I have good people around me who are also focused and passionate and help support and encourage me. It also makes a huge difference if I have written goals to focus on, like @avdesing said.
Written goals should happen all the time and having good influencers around is far better than bad, or even neutral. (I don't mean "Instagram influencers" here, those people are fucktards.) Everyone loses focus at some point...except maybe the fellow in these images.
A combination I'd say, of that focus, determination and necessity. Having. To get it done, no matter what, because I have to.
That started early on, I was raised with enough responsibility to turn my decisions into necessities, something that I had to comply with. It didn't really matter if afterward I wanted something different, the decision made was motivator to focus and get it done right and then as quick as possible so I could so the other thing.
Now that I think about it, the "wanting to do something else" was always a good motivator to be focused and determined to finish the first thing.
Have to do it, is a powerful motivator at times, I like, want to do it, which feels more like taking control of one's future, thoughts and actions. We're often obligated to do things but some don't have the ownership and discipline to do them well...In truth some don't even do the things they want to do to a high standard. Laziness.
Yes, in order to get to the things I want to do, I first have to get out of the way those that I have to do.
A lot of times people are told to want things that they don't, materials mostly, over metaphysical states. Then, they have a flash of dopamine achieving, but it doesn't fill them. Maybe the experience of that disappointment over and over males people not going the things that they think they want anymore. A frustration built by being told that this one thing will make them happy, but it doesn't.
Which is a total lack of knowing oneself, ones values and such. But it's what I see that society teaches these days.
I was wondering how you got military Lego as I never seen them! Of course with military Lego kids are gonna grow up violent!
I would say determination too, some things haven't been easy but I was determined to get them done no matter what, while others were afraid... I also have always been focused on competition, being it online or offline, the need "fight" to the top and not just be one average doing something
Humans have been violent long before Lego existed, so I think this statement above of yours is completely false.
Anyway, these days boys grow up wanting to be girls and girls want to be boys so I think the world have got bigger problems than military Lego. Humans really are garbage.
Ah mate I was being sarcastic I tought it was clear 🤣 that's the problem of text
I've grown with war planes and such but haven't kill anyone yet
I really need to focus on myself. Otherwise, my external image as well as my internal image will surely fall into ruin. As a boss at my workplace, I focus on developing leadership skills. Because I have to act as a role model for my subordinates and also increase the productivity of the organization. But if I focus on my internal state of mind, it is practically difficult to focus on it constantly. But I try to set aside some time for it. Because of this, many areas of life have been positively affected.
Interesting