Where Focus Goes.... energy flows

Don't think of a purple elephant!

Hang on a second, you just thought of exactly that although I told you not to. Do you know why? Because one of the universal laws is where focus goes energy flows.

What exactly does this mean I hear you ask? Well, let's just say you're fixated with all the negatives in your life, how you're so busy, you're tired all the time, the world is filled with idiots, everything is so hard, people set out to make your life difficult.... do I need to go on? What do you think you are going to filter into your daily experiences and encounters with the world? You will be out there searching for examples of the negative. And that's cool. We're all doing the best we can with the knowledge, information and resources we have at any given moment.

However, what kind of a world would be out there for you if you began to look at things from a different perspective? What if you began to schedule your day better or even get out of bed 15 minutes earlier and go to bed 15 minutes later? All of a sudden you've just created an extra half an hour in your day. What could you do with that time to add even more value to yourself and your day?

What if you started to exercise, nothing too over the top to begin with, just a gentle 30 minute walk around the block to clear your head. I can guarantee you that you will feel more energised after it. What if you chose to look at problems as possibilities instead? Then sit back and notice how things seem to unfold in a whole different light. Has the world suddenly changed? No, you are choosing to focus on a different outcome.

Come with me for a second. Grab your torch and let's go into this gigantic warehouse that stands before us. Take your torch and shine it anywhere you choose. What do you see? Are you seeing the possibilities that lay before you or are you seeing a big empty warehouse? What if you move your torch over to the left a little? What are you seeing now? What could you see if you chose to? Now, what would happen if someone turned on a huge flood light, and this once doomy and gloomy warehouse was now lit up like a Christmas tree?

The warehouse is a representation of our mind. Sometimes we can focus too much on the negatives and get caught up in a trap of allowing things to "happen" to us. It can be easy to forget that we are 100% responsible for ourselves and the results we're getting in our lives. It can be easy to blame others and make excuses for what's going on.

My challenge to you is for you to take the torch of your mind and to shine it in a new place, a place that may be unchartered territory or a place that you haven't visited for a while.  What can you now see that perhaps you couldn't before? What possibilities are opening themselves up to you? What direction could you now choose to go in that perhaps you haven't thought to go before or have been afraid to go in? What action step could you take that would be a step towards achieving a goal? I'd love to hear what you find when you shine your torch in a different part of your "warehouse".