Running an organization, overseeing a department, and managing yourself can be difficult.  Even if you create a strategic plan, set milestones, and breakdown the steps to reach those milestones you are faced with more information than ever before.  And all this information can cause you to lose your focus.
    
     Think back to grade school and you’ll recall that those kids who couldn’t focus were called “scatterbrains.”  We would hardly think about calling ourselves or our coworkers scatterbrained, but sometimes that would be the best description.  The solution to being scatterbrained is to focus.
    
     Focus on what is ahead, focus on meeting your goals, focus, focus, focus.  Those who don’t focus have trouble moving forward.  They are busy, they are working hard, but it is not a focused effort, instead they are running here and there, but never really making forward movement.
    
     There was a family of tightrope walkers called the Flying Wallendas.  When Karl, the patriarch of the Wallenda family, was in his seventies, he fell 120 feet to his death while trying to walk a tightrope between two office building in Puerto Rico.  Later his wife said that before the stunt, for the first time in his life, Karl had seemed concerned about falling.  When it came time to perform, he fell because he was focused on not falling rather than on getting to the other side.
    
     When you start to lose focus or focus on the wrong things remember Karl Wallenda.  When you lose focus you quit moving forward and may find yourself dead on the ground.