The Effort

The most important thing is to find what you love to do the most. Focusing is a very important aspect for us, we do so many sadhanas to achieve this thing called focusing, from childhood we are taught how to concentrate and focus. Plenty of techniques and methods sold by so many people/institutions are available, but do they really work. I'm certain that they don't work. You walk in to any book store and it's very obvious that they don't work. You have tried it too and you force the same on your children too.

Sometimes you get lucky and you happen to realize -- very late though -- that if you love something and that's the only thing that you want to do, then focusing comes very easily as if its your second skin.

All techniques, all methods that teach you how to focus are there when you force yourself to do something that you actually don't love but you assume that you do.

There is a scene in Shawshank Redemption where a new rookie brags about his stealing capacities and how he gets caught most of the times to which the protagonist retorts that he needs to change his job and it was high time he should realize that.