I wanted to talk to you about focus today. You see, it’s really easy to lose our focus and wander off the path that we should be on. I’ll give you a good example of focus. Sometimes kids are a good source of real estate training. Some of my children’s friends were over the other day. They were playing video games and playing with toys. Everyone was doing their own thing all at the same time in the same room. I noticed my son was sitting on the couch playing the Wii. One of his friends saw a toy on the couch next to him. The friend decides he wants to get that toy. So, he goes straight for the toy. Picks up the toy and he’s standing there looking at it. All the while his whole body is in front of my son who’s moving his head back and forth trying to see the TV. We called out the friend’s name, trying to get his attention. But, he wouldn’t look. He was focused on that toy. That is focus.
I wanted to share with you my son’s experience about how he was focused and determined to get a toy he wanted very much. He wanted a Ben 10 Ultimate Echo Echo toy like he was gonna die if he didn’t get it. He spent all day long talking about this toy and asking when he could get one. He wouldn’t go to sleep at night because all he could do was think about how he wanted that toy so bad. He said, “I’m not going to sleep until I get that toy.” He did this for about a week, after which he finally got the toy.
My son was devoted to thinking about his goal of getting that toy all day long. So that is our example. Children can be very fixated on one thing and they won’t get distracted. They’re very good at it. We can learn a lesson from them about maintaining focus on what we want to do.