Are you focusing on the wrong things?

An OMG Machines member named Anthea May revived a post I wrote back in October of 2013. (about 7 months into my OMG life) I tweaked a couple words, but revived the post over on my Facebook entrepreneur page I started a couple weeks back.
I'm maxed on friends and my family has no idea what I do "online".  I'll be able to share more from that page than I can from my personal page without my sometimes wild and crazy great aunts and cousins high-jacking threads to ask me where my Dad is nowadays.  Depending on your usage of Facebook, you may know what I'm talking about!  

I focus on really trying to get context wrapped around proper principles and understanding that let people bridge to experience the models I see and use and have their own breakthroughs in understanding.

"So when I was a kid, I learned how to stand, then wobbly walk, then run. Maybe around the age of 5 I learned how to throw and catch. So at the age of five I knew how to run and to throw and catch. The same three skills that are necessary to play professional football (American). Now yes, there are a lot of small things that make one pro athlete better than the next, but at the end of the day there are only a few basic skills. 

Now the level to which you develop these skills will determine whether you are picked last on the playground or first in the draft. It only takes developing yourself really well in a few key areas to go from being a recreational athlete, to a pro. 

Funny thing I've noticed is that there are a lot of people who may be better in the weight room, or able to jump higher some other thing, but they focused on things that weren't fundamental; it's a neat party trick, but it doesn't pay the bills. 

Let's focus on the things that pay the bills. Focus on breakthroughs and consolidating the things you KNOW are important, true and good. The development of the outwardly boring tedious things that most people want to skip over for that next new promise of easy riches. Throwing the ball 50 yards behind your back won't pay the bills. Building animated GIFs and embedding them in a banner ad won't pay your bills... unless you develop the fundamentals first. 

Just a thought for the day. Lets be professionals. Let's not waste people's time peddling time wasters. 

Many people got in the online marketing/ info marketing industry because we didn't want the restriction if a 9-5 corp job. We wanted freedom. The freedom to make mistakes comes with it and one major mistake is focusing on the wrong things.

I'll leave you with one concept that is true across the board. Without discipline and focus, you will never be free, in mind or spirit."

Joshua Fletcher

I pinned the original post to the top of this page:   https://www.facebook.com/JoshuaFletcherFletch/