Focus on your focus!

If there’s one key thing to focus on in order to be happier, healthier, more successful and to achieve greater peace of mind, it would be…FOCUS.

When our minds are wandering in and out of all the possible outcomes of a given situation, we need to stop and ask ourselves:

• Are we focused on all the things we want out of this situation?
• Or are we worried about everything that might go wrong?

As we focus, so goes our results because our brain creates for us, automatically, whatever we focus on. And it doesn’t discriminate between focusing on what we want vs. what we don’t want.

So…do we focus on the failure or the success, the love or the loss?

What our brain cares about is our EMOTION. The more passion-good or bad-in our imagination, the harder our brain works to create it for us.

Acting like a heat-seeking missile, our mind is very powerful and it draws to us whatever we are focusing on with energy and vibrancy in our imagination.

Our brain has a mechanism called the Reticular Activating System which is a bundle of nerves at our brainstem that filters out unnecessary information so the important stuff gets through.

It’s the reason we hear our name in a crowded room. It’s the reason we see VW’s everywhere the moment we decide we want to buy a VW.

 

And if we focus too often on how hard something is, our brain automatically leaps to the obstacles and not the solutions.

Ever since caveman days our brains have had to be alert to potential dangers in order to survive. It was essential to focus on the negative in order to survive.

But we can retrain our brains, and make positive, resourceful thoughts and feelings become our automatic responses. We want to be on the alert for our negative thoughts and flip them over as soon as we recognize them.

It just takes practice!

Are you up to it?

The rewards are worth it!