People let us down. Plans go wrong. Life throws things at us that we absolutely did not ask for.
You can’t control all of that.
You CAN control where you keep putting your attention.
That’s far more powerful than most people realise.
Spend every day looking for what’s wrong, what might go wrong, who has annoyed you, what you haven’t achieved and everything you don’t have…
…and guess what your brain gets very good at finding? 😞
More of it.
This isn’t about pretending everything is wonderful or sticking a positive affirmation over something that genuinely needs dealing with.
It’s about recognising that your attention is trainable.
There is some fascinating science behind this.
In one study, people who practised gratitude showed lasting differences in brain activity associated with gratitude three months later. More recent research found that people who recorded something they were grateful for every day for two months developed a greater positive memory bias than controls.
So no, changing your focus won’t magically change everything in your life.
It can change an enormous amount though.
This is a huge part of the work I do with people.
Perspective. Beliefs. Repeated patterns. The things you’ve trained yourself to notice. The stories you’ve repeated so many times you’ve stopped questioning whether they’re even true.
Sometimes changing your life starts with noticing where your attention keeps going.
So, confession time…
Who here knows they spend FAR too much time focusing on what’s going wrong? 😂
And who’s willing to run an experiment this week and deliberately start noticing what’s going RIGHT?
If you recognise that your beliefs, perspective or behavioural patterns are keeping you stuck and you’d like some help identifying them, reach out. This is exactly what I do.
I LOVED this interview with Michael Yon we cover so much - from cults, geopoloitics and what we can all do - nothing like hearing things from someone who has actually LIVED the experince not just read about it! Enjoy https://youtu.be/J2eF_4x4uII?si=qnQ3H883c7Ts1MjY