with during my most productive years. We never used it then (the word focus.) In farming we spoke of general farming a opposed to specialization. General meant you had hogs, chickens, sheep, perhaps some dairy cows and field crops of corn, wheat, beans, sugar beets, hay and oats.
Specialization became the way to go about the time I was quitting. You were a dairy farmer with most of your effort in that direction or else a crop farmer with no livestock etc. etc.
I held to the general or rather diversified with outside income from custom farm services (bulldozing, spray service, pest control, factory work, etc.) taking a lot of my time and energy.
I was indeed unfocused. I never meant it to be an interference on my goal of being a farmer and owning a farm. I look back and see that it was.
Had I marched directly toward my goal I believe I would have succeeded without the outside income. My interest was too wide even though I was proud to be able to do anything and do it well. Times and circumstances played their part but I seemed to have failed all around. Unfocused I guess.
And so the lesson was learned too late in life that focusing on the goal with all your skill and determination and especially with patience will get your where you want to be. Usually.
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