ZERO TO SUPERHERO | STRONGER, FASTER, SMARTER

Personal success can be difficult to achieve nowadays, with distraction being such a powerful enemy and attention being the most desirable of commodities. I’m reminded of the analogy Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein used in the book Insight Meditation when speaking about staying focused. He wrote about how a plastic bone could easily distract a small barking dog. Just hurl the bone in another direction and the dog is gonzo after the fake plastic bone. Unfortunately, that dog describes many of us in our day to day lives.

Then there is the lion. If a lion is focused on you, and you throw a plastic bone (or even a real top loin steak), his unflinching stare will remain fixed on you. The lions eyes will stay locked on target until he gets what he sees. We need to be more like the lion, never taking our eyes off the prize until we achieve our goal.