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What it Means to Be Focused

This week as John and I have been teaching our Tae Bo® students the new technique that has taken Tae Bo® to an amazing higher level of transforming our bodies and burning fat. Ask anyone who has tried it out!

We have also been talking bout being focused. Being focused is not simply concentrating or staring at something, but visualizing what you are doing or about to do, what is going on and still being aware of what is happening around you. Having a guide in front of you so you can make your movements precise, strong, and controlled. What is so cool about this is when you truly understand it, you can take your focus into any workout, whether it be Tae Bo®, Step, Yoga or doing video tapes at home, and they will transform your body like never before. I hear people say that a certain type of workout doesn't do anything for them, or that the tapes are not as challenging as a live class, but I believe that when you are focused and understand your body mechanics, you can make anything challenging, even taking a walk!

Being focused not only can help you to get into shape, but in every area of our lives. Most people are naturally unfocused. We live in a very distracting world. If you think about it, the time we are most focused and aware is when we are driving, and even then, we are distracted by our cell phone, eating and drinking, the music playing, etc. Being focused can save your life. Being focused can bring relationships to new levels. After a long day, you are home trying to cook dinner, attend to this and that and your children or spouse are talking to you, are you focused on what they have to say? When you are in a meeting or in school, are you focused on what is being taught to you? We tend to let so many distractions get into our head, we zone out and don't truly absorb what we need to.

The enemy wants us unfocused because that is when he can to get us. Often when people punch at my mitts in Tae Bo®, they look at the mitts as they punch and turn their head from side to side. They are distracted by the mitts, when they should be looking at the person holding the mitts, that is who they should never take their eyes off of, never take their focus off of, because if they do, they can just reach out and POW. The enemy is determined to distract you in everything so he can POW you. It is amazing how you can hit those mitts everytime when you focus on the source!

Let's not let anything POW us this week okay? Work on being focused. Just like anything else, it takes practice and time, but soon it will come naturally and wow, see how it will transform your life in EVERY area!