<p class="p1"><span>About two and a half years I lost focus. By that I don’t mean I couldn’t focus, I didn’t have something to focus on. That lack of focus lead to several decisions and attitudes that lead to shortsighted actions. My focus was lost largely by staring down past goals and motivations that were no longer relevant. </span></p>
<p class="p1">The most important thing I’ve done in the last year and a half is reset my focus and attempt to accomplish something different. The path to accomplishment is often littered with failures both small and large, while I don’t necessarily feel the need to share all of them here, non were catastrophic and all got me closer to achieving new goals with renewed focus. </p>
<p class="p1">This change in focus has me at a new position in life. Just in time for my 26th birthday. I’ve always had this premonition that a decision was to be made at 26… not 25… not 27… 26. Its not something that’s never been mentioned to others either. When certain opportunities arose, they were left on the table largely because the time didn’t feel right. Now as I approach this number, that in fact has is no more important than any other day in my life, for the first time in the last two and a half years there is something new driving me. </p>
<p class="p1">The drive for experience, experience that I’m willing to pay for whether and invest in - even if it doesn’t pay off in the short term. I look forward taking risk, stepping outside of my comfort zone and staying focused. When you are out of your comfort zone, your motivated to stay focused, because frankly you have to. You have to stay focused on the glimmering light in the distance that while it seems so far away is also</p>