Control your attention.  Choose good, choose faith, choose action aligned and toward purpose.  I speak from experience when I say I know how hard it is to believe we can control our attention.  Between people pleasing, ADD, anxiety, and a creative streak, I was constantly at the mercy of where my thoughts wanted to go.  Doing this work and learning about how much is in our control and how we can work with our thoughts to create a different path, I understand this differently now.  Not to say that I’ve mastered it by any means, but I understand the importance and the purpose of controlling our thoughts.  We can’t collapse ourselves into the emotion we are currently feeling.  Emotions are often temporary and they are reactive.  When we control what we focus on, our attention shifts and our emotions change.  Even if we learn to focus on a new aspect of something we are working on, the way we feel changes and new ideas come out.

We have the ability to decide where we want our attention to go.  Like we discussed yesterday, we get to choose our hard.  We can choose to be the victim or the victor.  We can choose to focus on what is good or what is bad.  The more we focus on the good, the more good finds its way into our lives.  I know it seems like an oversimplification of life.  There are a ton of caveats and exceptions and we all have our own experiences and we certainly all have the external factors and distractions and things we need to get by day to day.  But once we eliminate some of that noise and distraction, we can get to the foundation of who we are and know where we want to go—then we can decide to focus on what it takes to get there. 

This also goes back to the lens we discussed a couple of weeks ago.  There may be good and bad in all we do, in all facets of what comes our way.  We get to choose if we focus on that good or bad.  Focusing on the bad is necessary at times because we need to focus on how to fix/resolve the issue.  But when we focus on the good in the difficult situation, more solutions come.  If we wallow in the negative and constantly lament what has happened to us (if we stay in victim mode) then we never move forward.  Good doesn’t know how to thrive in the bad.  It’s our job to provide a light for it to happen, and that eventually spreads to create more light and more growth.  All from focusing on the good.  It’s always our choice.  All of it.  We have a giant supercomputer between our ears and we get to determine how we program it.  Feed it with good, believe in good, have faith and focus on our purpose.  The rest will take care of itself.