It's a challenge in the world that we live in today because there's so much coming at us: phones ringing and dings for email and dings for text messages, and just so much stuff coming at us, that it's getting more and more challenging to keep our minds on anything for any length of time.
We need to really begin to pray and ask God to give us the ability to focus. We're missing things that God's doing, we're missing things that God wants us to do because we just don't focus on what we should be focusing on.
I believe one of the things that brings us into a closer, more intimate relationship with God, is if we pay attention to what he's doing in our lives and make a bigger deal out of it than what we are doing now.