{"id":15,"date":"2013-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/?p=15"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:02:26","slug":"dreams-the-need-for-focus-on-what-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/dreams-the-need-for-focus-on-what-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams: The Need For Focus On What Is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Our need for focus and why it\u2019s so important.<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our minds, hours, days, weeks, even entire lives are constantly interrupted. We try to focus on the important things and end up having to deal with petty things.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We have goals, we have dreams, we have important ToDo lists, and yet they never happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife gets in the way\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Are you familiar with these frustrating feelings?<a href=\"\/stevenschmeltzle\/?attachment_id=208\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-208\" alt=\"for focus\" src=\"\/stevenschmeltzle\/files\/2013\/05\/focus-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>This Leaves Us Looking for focus<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some people spend their entire life trying to stay afloat and survive, and neglecting what makes their life exciting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you made a list of everything you waste your time on, things like paying bills, and going to work, and also make a list of everything you\u2019d rather do instead, I\u2019m sure you would see why millions of people have pursued a different path through life (by which I mean, a path of time and money freedom).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Guidelines for Focus<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What are your goals? Is everything you want to achieve possible if you continue giving up 5 days of your week to a job? Is everything possible if you only earn as much as you earn now?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response to these tough questions, my reaction was to start viewing things differently. I didn\u2019t live to work, I worked to live! I no longer wanted to hand over the majority of my week to a boss, nor did I want to watch the years fly by without major steps towards living the life I actually wanted to live.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I started working from home in my spare time. My income, outside of my job, started increasing, and my job became less and less relevant over time. If this were an option for you, would you take it?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When you start freeing up your time, and start earning more money, you start to see all the options available to you.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead of taking vacations when your boss says you can, go whenever you please! Instead of sitting in traffic every day to get to work, start a new hobby! Instead of working all day in a boring job, start volunteering your time at your favorite charity, or spend it learning languages, or building your business, or reading books, or flying hot air balloons\u2026 anything!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reclaiming your time is the most valuable thing you could do <strong>for focus in your life<\/strong>, and you can start today.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Having the time and money for focus<\/span> on what\u2019s truly important to you, instead of what your boss says is important, is the surest way to live a life that other people envy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Living an enviable life doesn\u2019t come from working endless hours for not enough money. It comes from seizing your own time and for focusing on what\u2019s important to you. Your time is now. Click the link below and I\u2019ll show you how to create an amazing life.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/almostasecret.stevenschmeltzle.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/jverrengia\/files\/2012\/08\/EN+REGISTER+BUTTON16.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If enjoyed today\u2019s post please \u2018like &amp; share\u2019 this page so someone else can benefit from it!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S. Work<\/strong> With <strong>Me<\/strong> and Get <strong>Free Silver<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/freesilverforme.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Free Silver Now<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you like this post on <em>Dreams: The Need For Focus On What Is Important<\/em>, retweet and comment please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our need for focus and why it\u2019s so important. \u00a0 Our minds, hours, days, weeks, even entire lives are constantly interrupted. We try to focus on the important things and end up having to deal with petty things. \u00a0 We have goals, we have dreams, we have important ToDo lists, and yet they never happen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46,47,48],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empower-network","tag-focus","tag-for-focus","tag-need-to-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/stevenschmeltzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}