Where is your focus?

Here are some very interesting comments from the book THE HOPE QUOTIENT by Ray Johnston.

A teacher in the 6th grade made a comment to a young boy named Howard  Hendricks. Howard says the fifth grade was the worst year of his life. Sixth grade became the best.    

Howard described himself as a "troublemaker, a hell-raiser." His fifth-grade teacher called Howard "the worst behaved child in this school." When the next school year began, his sixth-grade teacher, Miss Noe, went down the roll and called out his name, then looked up, only to see him sitting there with his arms folded, "just waiting to go into action." She studied him for a moment and said, "I've heard a lot about you." Howard said he immediately thought, "here we go again." She smiled and added, "but I don't believe a word of it." "Suddenly someone believed in me. For the first time in my life, someone saw potential in me," says Howard.

Here is the point the author is making about what happened to Howard: when a teacher focuses on what a student can become, rather than on what he or she is, the future is liberated from the past. 

When a business focuses on what it can become, rather than on what it has been, new and exciting opportunities can be pursued.

When we finally start focusing on what something or someone can become, rather than on what or who it is, everything changes.

Where is your focus?

Enthusiastically,

Gary Burke