There is something special about all winners, something which put them separate from all others. The most common and hence most important thing which winners do and others don’t is Focus.
Focus is the first and the most important parameter which separates a winner from others. Winner focus on what is their goal and how they have to achieve it. They are so much focused on their goals that at times others call it as obsession, and believe me when all are laughing on them, winners feel proud and happy knowing that his focus has grown so much that it looks obsession and hence their goal is now much more achievable.
Focus of winners makes them do things which others think are unachievable. At the time when everyone thinks on where to start from, a winner thinks of his goals to be achieved. It is this focus which marks other relative qualities of a winner sounds more important. But the fact is, if you are not focused on what you want to do, it is of hardly any importance that how so ever great you are, the chances that you will achieve your goal are very less. History has proven time and again, that the people most focused on their job are the one who come as winners at the end.
Let’s look at this thought with the help of an example. We all know the greatness of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (SRT or Little Master), and with him, we all know a not so great, his close friend Vinod Kambli. Both the Mumbai young batsmen busted into the international cricket arena at the same time and took the cricketing world with storm of runs. By far Vinod Kambli was much more talented than SRT. The double hundreds, hitting ‘The Great Shane Warne’, everything came in the way of Vinod Kambli. With success came money, style, fashion and distractions. Kambli, thus got victim of too much success in too small time. He was never in a position to get all these things in such a short time period. And hence, as we all know, his weakness against short pitched balling was soon discovered, and brought his downfall. On the other hand we had SRT playing like a magician; each stroke was played with thousands of thoughts behind it. Hard labor, hours of practice, and focus to stay at top of all his oppositions marked the key to SRT’s success. Everything which Kambli got with his success was at SRT’s doorstep too. But the two players were different.
Kambli being more talented was never required to fight out of any problem. He was so talented that any problem which came to him was solved by just the karisma of his talent. And hence when Kambli faced the short ball problem, he tried to solve it with his talent, but this time the fate had different plans for him. He didn’t have the solution for it and didn’t either have the focus of how big this problem is. Big enough to mark the downfall of the most talented and karismatic player India has produced since long. And then there was SRT, a much less talented player but so focused he was in his game that any bowler who targeted him was left tasting dust and admiring his greatness. New shots were constructed, milestones were achieved, history was eased and rewritten, only to be written with only one name in it Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, The Little Master.
There are many more stories with such kind of examples from Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Bhagat Singh, APJ Abdul Kalam, Michel Schumacher, Steve Waugh, Amitabh Bachchan, Kapil Dev, Pet Sampras, and the list of such winners is a long one. All of them having one common trait in them and that’s Focus. Imagine Mahatma Gandhi without focus of getting India free from British rule, I believe we cannot even imagine the condition we all Indian would have been. We won the world cup in 1983 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev and India is still waiting for their second one and a half all-rounder as capable of Kapil Dev. Nelson Mandela’s work in Africa for black people, has won him a Noble Prize, so is with Late Mother Teresa. All winners in their own fields, approaching their goals with one common trait Focus.
There is something which winners do and others don’t and that’s Focus.
