OUT OF FOCUS

If you don’t define your life, your life might not have a lot of accomplishment in it. You may have a lot of projects you have started but, over time, it becomes obvious that few things ever get finished.

TOO MANY D.I.Y. PROJECTS

I think that a lack of focus, when combined with a short attention span contributes to a great deal of unfinished business. Even when you have a lot of energy, but run out of ideas or direction for those you do have, you can easily become frustrated and restless.

I suspect that never having discovered a defining passion, interest or purpose, may have a lot to do with it. When nothing inspires you enough to hold your interest, many things will be needed to fill the time. Unfortunately, none of them interest you enough to work on and complete them.

HANGING OUT WITH OTHERS

You might also hope, hanging around with others might somehow, find you some inspiration, give you something to do, or if nothing else, help you pass the time in a convivial and amusing way.

However, in fact, you can easily be a problem to others, because some of them are hoping for the same thing…for others to amuse, entertain and occupy them.

This can work for a while, but usually only until somebody needs to get actually get something done. At this point your demands for others attention leads to the risk of your making a nuisance of yourself. Not funny.

A NEW HOBBY

Some of us develop a 'Hobby' of telling others how to do their jobs or interfering in other ways with other people around them. Your helpful ‘free’ advice, is usually neither helpful nor free. I suspect that most who give ‘free advice’ rarely have taken the trouble to understand themselves, or anyone else fully.

If you were them, you wouldn’t be you. If you were them, you would probably not have done it the way they are doing it or did it.

However, you are not them, you are you. Although you have some ideas about what someone else is doing, it is not yours to do, but theirs. Naturally and logically they need to do it their way, not yours.

KEEPING YOUR OPTIONS OPEN

Leaving all of your options open, may lead to rarely expressing an interest or belief in anything.

As the saying goes, when you believe in nothing; you will believe anything. Too often, possibly because of too much, or too little, sleep, you develop and are captivated by whimsical and even otherwise transparently stupid fantasies.

Normally such things are those that most people don’t have the time or interest to waste their time, and often, money on.

However, just as substantial and useful things interest people who understand life better and are focused, these others are willing and have the time to focus on what almost everyone else considers the absurd, specious and useless. 

MISSING LINKS

When you devote the kind of concentration and dedication to something most people can’t or won’t, you can perhaps get credit for having a lot of imagination. 

However a lack of facts, education, knowledge of laws of physics, chemistry, biology, or logic, and possibly even common sense, simply do not validate your unique perspective of the world.

When we think about it a bit, most of us will admit that we really don't believe that the world is all wrong and we are the only ones on the right track.

ADJUSTING YOUR FOCUS

Should you find that you have some 'spare time' on our hands, you might consider that many people around us and around the world do not have this luxury.

We might also notice and acknowledge that many people are experiencing genuine physical and mental deprivation and pain.

With increased awareness and recognition that we could actually be useful to someone worse off than ourselves, we might perhaps use some of our copious free time in helping them out a bit.

The fact that we will actually be helping ourselves even more than anyone else when we extend ourselves to others may be truer than we care to admit, but we can keep it our little secret.