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a great deal of desire to excel in this area of her life. She has attended a few conferences, delivered a few papers and is seeking to become a prolific interpreter and translator in that particular language. However, she is also fascinated with marketing. As a matter of fact, friends sometimes tease her that she can sell Ice to an Eskimo. So because she is torn between these two areas she has not been able to actualize her potential in either of them. What she lacks is focus!

Now life does not always give us what we think we deserve. The uncertainty of life adds to the excitement of daily living. Sometime we get involved in something that we think we are good at. We think we have giving it what it takes to success. However we find that along the way things are just not falling into place as we think they would. It seems apparently that we are failing as it were. A good number of people give up at this time and throw in the towel! And so we see people who have left a long list of failed project in their trail. As time goes on self doubt begin to develop and failure eventually becomes a habit, a way of life. At such times what is needed is focus. A tenacity of purpose which will help in seeing through the project.

And so as he stood rooted to the spot where he went to check the pass list for my examination. He discovered that he had taken on too many things at a time as they have caught my fancy. He therefore did not have as much time as he should have had to study for the examination the way he should. The ability is there and the motivation is not lacking, only I have to focus to get his desired goal!

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