Changing your averageness

# Chapter 315

Focus is a superpower, I don’t care who you are or how average you think yourself to be. Focus changes everything including your averageness. It can elevate the typical to the exceptional, the mundane to the magnificent, the boring to the exciting, the dismal to the dynamic, the uninteresting to the fascinating, and the unimaginative to the intriguing. Yes like I said it is a superpower. You have it within yourself to take this superpower and put it to work.

Mostly it is just a discipline that generally doesn’t compete well against the legions of distractions that you have surrounded yourself with and allowed into your life. Those distractions will win practically every time if you permit them into your mental space and grant them access. Focus won’t even get a chance to show you what it can do, because it never gets out of the gate, distractions keep it firmly pinned in and unable to function. Many folks don’t even know what their focus can do because they have never let it run rampant in their day and time like they let the distractions run wild. Unless you reign in this zoo of distractions you will never encounter the superpower of focus nor the gift of deep work.

Once encountered, everything can change. You can dive deeply into complexity and complicated challenges that you never could have wrestled with before. You could change lives, neighborhoods, communities, counties, states and countries! Most will never get this opportunity because YouTube and Facebook will doom them to obscurity by robbing them of every possible chance to make a difference. Instead of changing the world, they will watch all the awkward ways people make videos of themselves and they will see pics of what their friends and relatives are eating. Wow.