The Great Battle

How often do you get distracted?  How many different directions do you try to go at once?  If you are like me, there are so many different things you are interested in and that you enjoy doing that if you tried to do a little of each, you would never get good at any of them.  You know the saying, 'Jack of all trades, master of none'.  I don't know about you, but I sure feel like 'Jack' sometimes.
But there is a rather simple solution: FOCUS!  Stop bouncing from one thing to the next to the next.   Thomas Edison was once asked how he accomplished so much. He said, 'It is very simple.  You and I have eighteen hours in a day in which we may do something.  You spend that eighteen hours doing a number of different unrelated things.  I spend it doing just one thing, and some of my work is bound to amount to something.'
Living in a world that seems to have been designed by people with A.D.D. for people who have A.D.D., it's quite difficult to pick one thing to do and to stick to it, but it is not only possible, it is highly important to do so.  Remember the parable of the talents?  The master gave his three servants talents, and two of them invested (magnified) those talents and doubled them for their master.  The third buried the talent, thus wasting it.  When the master returned and found that the third had not done anything with the talent he was given, he took it away.  Matthew 25:29 'For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.'  Don't waste those talents God has given you, concentrate on them and make them more!
The only way to become an expert in your chosen field, is to CHOOSE your field, and throw yourself into it.   What it is that you truly like and want to do?  Are you also naturally talented and gifted in that area?  Do you feel like God has inspired and maybe even called you to that field?  (Remember, that you may have several different callings in life, but that doesn't mean you are called or expected to do them all at the same time!)  God has asked us to 'magnify' our callings.  Like most kids, I enjoyed playing with a magnifying glass.  And like most kids, I burned my share of insects.  Doing so, I learned a lesson that applies beautifully here.  It is not possible to burn multiple insects at the exact same time.  The light and heat of the sun have to be focused into an intense and small beam to 'magnify' that heat to the point that it can ignite and burn whatever it is focused on.  So if instead of focusing on one target, you bounce from one to the next to the next, you really don't accomplish anything (good for the longevity of the bugs, bad when applied to life's important goals).  
I am a big advocate of mastering many different skills in life, and the more I experience and learn in life, the more I can see that in order to truly master a skill, concentration is required.  You really have to learn and apply the principle or law of concentration.
A repeated theme among experts in time management and work efficiency is that it is just as important to have a 'stop doing' list as it is to have a 'to do' list (in fact, the stop doing list may be more important than the to do list). What can you sacrifice (or stop doing) in order to concentrate more fully on your chosen field?
You can win the battle of concentration, and reap the promised rewards: Matthew 25:21  His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.