Focus

Now I'm going to be honest with you here, at the beginning of college my focus was everywhere but my studies. How to make friends, who to hang out with, who to eat with, what to eat, should I stay up this late? All questions that ran through my head within the first weeks of school and they didn't help me academically. As I found my way and I found my social niche I realized that I was worrying for nothing and that my real focus needed to be on my grades. Since the beginning of school I concentrate more on my studies and my grades and less on the petty social aspects of my college experience. Focus and concentration are one within each other and can be very challenging for me to accomplish. As the days and weeks drag on here in college, my mind fills with a constant to do list that seems to be never ending. With my to do list continuing to grow and not enough hours in the day, I struggle with staying in the moment. I plan ahead my next evening or the next class of homework that needs to be finished instead of just cracking down and completing assignments. As a person who likes the see the big picture first before focusing on the minor details, focusing on the current task at hand can be a challenge for me. When I finally do decide to concentrate on the small details, I sometimes over think the simplicity of them. In my mind the big picture is this huge complex diagram, and when I brake it down into small details I tend to over think and expect the small details to be extremely difficult when in fact they normally are not. Living in the moment is something that comes and goes and at times I live in the moment and I didn't even realize it until after the moment is over. For instance it was a Wednesday evening and me and my friends were bored out of our minds. Instead of studying for a Frex's test that we all knew we would have in the morning we decided to run around Centennial Hall. We ran, did cart wheels, and had chair races down the hallways of the dorm. In this moment of fun all my thoughts and worries went away and I was truly living in the moment. After the chaos of the night died down, I realized that I still had a test to study for, but for the hour of fun I can truly say that I lived in the moment. To live in the moment means to block out all other distractions and to concentrate only on the task at hand.