Where is your Focus?
No, I am not going to talk about photography here. I am going to talk about life here.
Have you ever wonder what is your focus in life? Achieving success, like owning that car, do volunteer work at less developed country, helping suffering Africans and so on. So are you on your way? If the answer is “Yes”, congratulations. If not, why? Have you lost your focus in life?
Have you ever notice how come some of us are extremely pessimistic and some are optimistic? The problem here is our focus. When something happen, which aspect of the problem are we focusing on, the good or the bad? Of course, if you always keep on thinking about the bad things that come with the problem, you would be pessimistic and vice versa.
For example, someone is retrenched, and he keeps on thinking about the bills he has to pay, the livelihood of the family, blame the boss for retrenching him and many problems that come with it. He could become suicidal if he keeps on focusing on the burden that comes with the retrenchment.
What if he had focused on instead the new opportunities that come along with retrenchment? Like this could be a chance to learn a new skill, need a break, the new job could be better and so on. Well, he is in a good position to rectify his problems.
If you are going to tackle a problem, do it when you are feeling right, definitely not when you are feeling low, sad or angry. It does not help at all. To feel right, you have to change your focus, switch from having negative thought to positive thoughts. It is all a matter of changing your focus of thinking.
Even in interpersonal relationship, if you only focus on the bad things that Person A did to you, you would hate Person A to the core, but if you focus on the good things that Person A did for you, you would at least be more tolerant Person A.
Try changing your focus in life and thinking. Hopefully this advice would improve your life in some ways.
So remember, where is your focus? Cheers!
Have you ever wonder what is your focus in life? Achieving success, like owning that car, do volunteer work at less developed country, helping suffering Africans and so on. So are you on your way? If the answer is “Yes”, congratulations. If not, why? Have you lost your focus in life?
Have you ever notice how come some of us are extremely pessimistic and some are optimistic? The problem here is our focus. When something happen, which aspect of the problem are we focusing on, the good or the bad? Of course, if you always keep on thinking about the bad things that come with the problem, you would be pessimistic and vice versa.
For example, someone is retrenched, and he keeps on thinking about the bills he has to pay, the livelihood of the family, blame the boss for retrenching him and many problems that come with it. He could become suicidal if he keeps on focusing on the burden that comes with the retrenchment.
What if he had focused on instead the new opportunities that come along with retrenchment? Like this could be a chance to learn a new skill, need a break, the new job could be better and so on. Well, he is in a good position to rectify his problems.
If you are going to tackle a problem, do it when you are feeling right, definitely not when you are feeling low, sad or angry. It does not help at all. To feel right, you have to change your focus, switch from having negative thought to positive thoughts. It is all a matter of changing your focus of thinking.
Even in interpersonal relationship, if you only focus on the bad things that Person A did to you, you would hate Person A to the core, but if you focus on the good things that Person A did for you, you would at least be more tolerant Person A.
Try changing your focus in life and thinking. Hopefully this advice would improve your life in some ways.
So remember, where is your focus? Cheers!
posted by Strategist at 9:20 AM
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