Let me first share a story from Mahabharatha before I answer your question.
Arjuna, a warrior prince, and his brothers and cousins are being trained in archery and warcraft by the great teacher Drona.
Drona assembles the young princes together, places a wooden sparrow on the branch of a tree and asks the princes to aim for the eye of the bird.
He asks one of the princes to come forward, draw his bow and then asks, “Tell me what you see?”
The prince responds, “I see the bird, the branches and the tree.”
“What else do you see?” asks the venerable teacher. “Tell me everything you see”.
“I see the sky, the clouds, the sun..Oh Drona” responds the prince.
Drona then asks the next prince in line the same question.
“What do you see?”
“I see the bird, the tree, the sun and the skies..Oh Drona.”
One by one the princes are asked the same question and they describe everything they see.
Then its Arjuna’s turn.
“What do you see boy?” asks Drona.
“Blackness, my teacher. I see blackness”.
“What else do you see?”
“Nothing but blackness, my teacher. That is all I can see.”
Drona presses Arjuna. “What is this blackness Arjuna?”
“It is the blackness in the center of the eye of the sparrow, my lord. I can see nothing else.”
“Shoot” says Drona. “You will be a Master Archer someday.”
And Arjuna shot exactly at the right aim.
The key to motivation is to focus on just one thing at a time.
When you are focusing on too many things, you get distracted and mind gets confused.
You lose all your motivation when your mind is confused.
Swami Vivekananda expressed this wisdom beautifully in the following words.
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”
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