A real purpose is just like a magnet which brings together all your

efforts and challenges you to achieve your purpose. The following

are rules that can be applied to create concentration and focus. They
are simple but far reaching in their effects.
1. Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and concentration, and
try to complete it before you start doing something else.
This needs discipline, and it is often very beneficial to go and work
for a boss and follow his instruction to create a sense of continuity
in you.
2. Do your own duty instead of trying to do the duties of others.
If you do not focus yourself on your own duties but try to be
interested in the duties of others and interfere in them, you soon
lose the opportunity to have roots. You become rootless. You see
many rootless plants carried here and there by the wind.
Doing your own duty creates roots. What are roots?Stability,
focus, concentration, sense of responsibility.
3. Create a purpose and three goals to achieve that purpose. Write
about your goals and know them as factually as possible.
Set the steps to reach your goals, and do all that is possible to fulfill
your goals.
After fulfilling your goals, see how close you are to your purpose.
Once you accomplish your three goals and achieve your purpose,
you will feel very strong, self-confident, focused, and concentrated.

Now you can create another purpose and do the same thing. After
achieving these purposes, you are a man or woman who can be
successful in the world.
During the period of working with your goals to try to achieve your
set purpose, you will have intuitive moments in which you will be
conscious about a Purpose which transcends all your so-called
purposes, but such a flash will be so fast that the next moment you
will lose it.
Periodically the flash of the ultimate Purpose of your life will visit
you until your brain one day catches it for a few seconds.
Your glory will start from that moment of realization of your
Purpose, and you will enter into the path of success.
An unstable mind and an unstable life are a great waste. They are
sources of confusion and instability for others.
People who change their goals often and run after new goals without
accomplishing their former goals and achieving their purpose
eventually turn their back on their purpose. They often hate it and
become enemies of those who have a similar purpose. Those who
are frustrated become the traitors of those who show signs of having
a similar purpose to their own.
A person who was changing his church every year eventually told me
that all churches were useless. Another person who was changing
his political ideology every six months came to the conclusion that
all ideologies were nonsense. Another person who was reading every
kind of book eventually gave away all his two thousand books.
Another person complained that all branches of the Ageless Wisdom
had no substance, and he became a materialist.

The reason for all this is that such people have never touched the
essence of the things they tried, or they were not ready yet for
studies which they wanted to master.
Too much undigested food makes the stomach reject all kinds of
food.
Daily we can exercise these virtues in the smallest of our deeds,
developing them bit by bit, and eventually turn into stable persons.
Source: Leadership,vol.4, by Torkom Saraydarian