I was saddened to see my bins being emptied this week by a guy who I recognised. He had previously came to look at the Ferrari I had several years ago when he was ten years old.
He was a big fan of Ferraris and he said to me “I want one of these one day”. Wanting to encourage him to go and get what he wanted in life, I gave him some advice.
I told him that if he worked hard at school (along with a few other pieces of vital life advice) that it was possible that he could have his own Ferrari when he was older.
He listen intently, even appeared to nod sagely as I shared my worldly wisdom.
Unfortunately, it would seem that as he grew older he either chose to ignore or he had forgotten that advice and fell into the trap of working for a living and spending his hard earned money on wine, women and song.
I might be wrong; it might all be part of his master plan.
Perhaps he did listen to my advice and is busy building up a pot of seed money to start his empire. One can only hope.
Either way, the story isn’t as profound as one that Tony Robbins would share… but then again, I doubt he would share how many times his advice has been ignored.
The moral of the story is… ignore the advice from the person who has the thing you want at your peril.
He wanted a Ferrari, I had a Ferrari, and I told him how to go about acquiring one. I don’t believe he followed my advice.
The boy was ten at the time and so I imagine that a lot of what I said was soon forgotten. Children are easily distracted by all things shiny, flashy and exciting.
That’s fine, that’s what children do. It’s quite natural. They are too busy enjoying a life without responsibilities.
The problem is when children don’t grow out of that behaviour and turn into adults who are still easily distracted by all things shiny, flashy and exciting.
There’s nothing wrong with getting excited and liking new and flashy things, its human nature. Humans are pleasure seekers and without seeking pleasure and excitement, we as a species may never have evolved into who we are.
However…
It’s a problem when people are unable to control those impulses which have them flitting from one exciting new thing to another.
In the film Star Wars, the Jedi Master Yoda told Luke Skywalker in an attempt to inform him of the seriousness of the journey and the importance of his study:
“Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things.”
People who struggle to focus on the one thing they need to do and end up going to the pub with friends, trawling through YouTube watching entertaining but pointless videos or doing anything other than the thing they should be doing… are going to struggle to achieve the things they really want and need.
Chasing after the exciting shiny new object is a recipe for failure.
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There will always be a shiny new object to replace the last shiny new object which quickly replaced the previous shiny new object.
Shiny new objects grab people’s attentions and they distract them from doing what they need to do.
It can be incredibly destructive to success.
You can be working towards a goal and just when you are within reaching distance of it, you stop and go and do something else instead.
That something else may be temporarily chasing gratification and excitement which leads to the slowing down of reaching the goal or even completely forgetting to go back to what you were originally doing.
Or worse, it could be to completely stop what you are doing and start something new putting you back to the beginning at square one.
Either way, it prevents you from achieving the results you want now.
People are terrible for the fear of missing out on something fun or new. It has become a widely used term lately; FOMO.
The fear of missing out and the inability to stop yourself being distracted are preventing people from become the successes they could and should be.
Fun, entertainment, comfort and ease seduce people away from the work required to achieve a goal.
And the truth is… there is no fun, entertainment, comfort or ease in being poor and unsuccessful when you could and should have been both.
Fun, entertainment, comfort and ease will soon be replaced with feelings of regret and depression when you realise what you actually missed out on when you weren’t missing out on things.
Missing out on a few things in life can be very good for you and can result in you enjoying more of the really important things in life.
Okay, I am not saying that you should not do anything fun and that you need to miss out, what I am saying is that you there should be a balance and an understanding as to what you can actually miss out on if you are constantly being distracted by those fun and exciting shiny new objects or events.
Two hours of solid distraction free work will always out trump six or even eight hours of disrupted work.
The more undisrupted work you do, the more your efforts will be amplified and the better your life will become.
Kind Regards
John Harrison
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