For serious, talented individuals who are willing to approach the transition with seriousness and focus, the odds are not as bad as you might think.
Generally, these results suggest the benefit of focusing second chance programs such as ChalleNGe on older youth who may have fewer options for obtaining high school credentials and who may approach the experience with greater seriousness and focus.
The seriousness and focus of its video and subject matter could never have come from the younger man who made the solipsistic Camp or the paranoid Because the Internet.
He also demanded seriousness and focus from his staff, once reportedly driving Elliott to tears and saying "'Don't you know that I will (expletive) kill you right now?'".
Implied in this sort of structuring of sacred space is a correlative phenomenology: one which requires of the devotee an appropriate seriousness and focussed attention, if they are to grasp aright the sacred reality that is to be encountered in the sanctuary (compare Jones 2000 on the various strategies of "ritual-architectural allurement").
It also relates to whether our political system as a whole can regain over time the ability to agree on a common economic vision, and to pursue it with the proper sense of shared responsibility, adequate seriousness and focused implementation.
"But also if they notice a lack of focus, seriousness, whatever the word is, to bring it up and help their teammates get ready and not wait until after the game to say it's a problem.
So there is a certain level of seriousness and more focus because it's like, 'The time is now.' We want this feeling to continue for as long as we possibly can to be the king of the hill.
"In all seriousness, my main focus right now, and for the foreseeable future, is Gabby's recovery and also spending some more time with my kids," Kelly said.
In Cruz, the right has found a fiery conservative, an articulate orator and a candidate with the seriousness and laser focus to win the general election.
