Spring

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fo·cus

Focus:

8.	to bring or come to a focus or into focus
9.	to fix attention (on); concentrate

 

Synonyms
1. center, heart, core, nucleus.

 

I'm thinking this is my word for 2013. I caught myself on Saturday saying to my husband, "I'm going to try to stay focused on this project and try really hard not to get distracted." A couple of hours later he was moving a chair around and I told him I could come and help him and he reminded me that I wasn't supposed to interrupt myself. So true. I am my worst interrupter.

 

And if you were wondering, definitions 1 through 7 were related to physics, optics, geometry and geology. I really like the synonyms for this word; center, heart, core, nucleus.

 

Focus takes practice and concentration. It's an awareness of what you are doing at a moment in time. When I am not focused I don't do my best. When I consciously focus on a task, whether it be cooking, exercise, a work project or sewing, I do better if all my thoughts are on that one task at hand.

 

This is my goal this year, to focus on what I'm doing at the time I am doing it. To finish something because I have put my heart into it and I have focused on seeing it through.

 

As to my Saturday project, it took me many hours and a few breaks. I cleaned up and organized fabric and magazines in a spare bedroom. I'm very happy with the results. One thing I learned is that I keep too many magazines. I will try to read a magazine then pull out the pages I want to keep and put them in a sheet protector and in a binder. I'm mainly talking either quilting patterns or cooking recipes.

 

I love to take pictures and sometimes I have to adjust my focus to get just the right shot. Same with other things, I can adjust my focus to make the best of what I'm doing.

 

Here's a picture I love which I took one or two winters ago. It's a great example of focus.