"Do you know what I consider the secret of successful accomplishment?"  A prominent business person once asked me this question.  The businessman answered himself with, “It is the singleness of purpose."

Since then I have thought about this answer a good many times. 

It is almost a certainty that individuals of average intelligence can accomplish just about what they set out to accomplish, if they will concentrate all their efforts on that one THING and stick to it, working for it, and believing in it. 

If there is one thing in your business that you particularly want to accomplish, one pin level or income level you are anxious to achieve, and you concentrate on that one and persist, you will almost inevitably achieve that purpose.  Successful business executives have been aptly described as people with "the eye of a tiger", focused and fearless. They evaluate themselves and others by a simple single standard. Results!

Everything important to business must be planned. Successful people strike a balance and differentiate between business and personal and take time to plan their activities.

Anything worthwhile deserves to be planned before it is done.  Planning requires thought about your purpose and how to accomplish results.  Knowing exactly what you mean to accomplish is the first step in planning in your business and your personal life. Unfortunately, there are people in business who are "too busy" to do an intelligent planning of their time and do the business "when they can". These people are like grasshoppers, good on distance but poor on direction. 

I recently read a historical novel that was set in Spain in World War II and I found one paragraph particularly applicable to the concept of having "the eye of the tiger", focused and fearless.

A veteran from the first war, on one of the rare occasions he spoke to soldiers of the past, said that in a war every sense had to be tuned to survival.  He said…

"You didn't see, you watched, as an animal watches.
You didn't hear, you listened, as an animal listens.
You became as focused and heartless as an animal.
Every sense was fine tuned to survival."
Successful accomplishment requires every sense to be fine tuned to success, in other words, a singleness of purpose measured by results. 

Entrepreneurs don't see, they watch, they don't hear, they listen and they are focused on a single purpose and with "the eye of a tiger, and they are fearless and focused when it comes to results. 

They evaluate themselves by a single simple standard - RESULTS.

The singleness of purpose is the secret of successful accomplishment in business.  In other words, "the eye of the tiger"