Let your eyes look right on [with fixed purpose], and let your gaze be straight before you. Know where you are headed and you will stay on solid ground. Don’t make a mistake by turning to the right or the left. – The Bible: Proverbs 4
In the proverbial “final
stroke of the pen” (in this case keyboard), I would like to draw your attention
to the ability of my favorite bird – the falcon – to focus on its prey until it
hits it. The falcon can see its prey from over a kilometer. Its takes a dive at
it – travelling at speeds of over 300 kph – all the while keeping its focus
firmly on its target. In a short while the prey would not know what hit it.
For potential blessing to
become productive blessing you must keep firm focus on the purpose to which you
began. It is the purpose to which you are acting that will determine if you
will succeed or fail. Young David asked his elder brother, “Is there not a
cause?” He knew that the cause will keep him focused on the goal of fighting
Goliath the giant.
Many countries do not focus
on any serious cause. It is this that creates several discontinuities in
leadership and in effect limited progress. One government comes into office and
creates an agenda only for another to replace it with another completely
different one. This is more worrying when it comes from different
administrations of the same political alliance. Just the way the falcon won’t
hit its prey if it tries to focus on more than one, people don’t achieve much
when they have to continually change their focus.
Are you a focused person? If
you would succeed you must have falcon eyes. You must learn to set your sights
on your goal and focus on the purpose to which you began in the first place. Remember
that the purpose will keep you. 
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