Many students join the schools, colleges and universities with a goal and focus to study and graduate with good grades hoping to have a better lifestyle. Every year fresh students apply for jobs with good intentions to excel in life but there is one common factor that disables these people and that is lack of focus on the sight of their fortune.
Almost all people seek to make their future brighter but they lose the sight of their fortune because many other entertaining activities derail their attention and focus as a result they all falter and fail in realizing their fortune. By fortune here I mean the freedom to pursue their independent goals and ambitions.
I wonder if these people persist long enough in focusing on their fortune, goal or purpose, they can truly surprise themselves. Many people go off course because there are many silly things that take their energy and focus for example the short-term entertainment, fun, friends, short-term gratification etc. These activities appear so alluring to the students that they get carried away by the immediate pleasure gratification.
My only advice is never to lose the sight of one's fortune because fortune will offer great lifestyle for the rest of life and thereby live in freedom, peace, happiness and health. People do fall down once in a while but they should never lose the sight of their fortune. There are many great men and women who never lost the sight of their fortune such as Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Wright Brothers, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and many others. These people held on to their fortune, purpose, mission and goals until they achieved them though it was not so easy to keep the focus.
Maintain your focus on your goals no matter what because that is what you want to get, be, have and enjoy in life. Don't ever lose the sight of your fortune because you won't be happy any longer than you think so. Pursue your fortune rather than the fake fortune which allures us so easily by being full of fun and pleasure for a brief time. But always remember that you don't give in to such immediate notion of fortune or fun.
In the long run, what really matters is how close you come to your destiny and what it offers you in the long run. Don't get fooled by little things that seem to be promising but they don't have long term guarantee for your fortune.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
