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How Your Focus Shapes Your Reality

You may be familiar with with popular adage, “Your focus creates your reality.” Variants of this saying also include:

“You get what you focus on, so focus on what you want.”

“Energy flows where attention goes.”

“What you focus on expands.”

I love pithy maxims as much as the next person but I’m more interested in practical wisdom.

When I hear a quote or idea that resonates with me, I typically ask questions like, “What makes this true? What basis does this statement have in reality?” “Can I corroborate this with an experience from my own life?”

I’ve found that sayings that have been around for a long time tend to contain at least some truth or wisdom. It turns out there is a lot of wisdom packed into the idea that your focus creates your reality. Let me walk you through a short exercise that will demonstrate, on a small scale, how your powerful your focus can be...

Does reaching goals actually make you happy?

If you follow my Instagram, you know that I love goals and highly recommend having them. But probably not for the reasons you might think...

No doubt you've heard the saying "Life is about the journey, not the destination." Yes, I know it's a corny cliche. But for good reason... it has a lot of truth.

For instance, you know that place in life you think you need to reach in order to feel like you've "made it?" Your ideal version of success? Picture it. Visualize it. Feel it. Got it? Good.

I hate to break it to you, but someone, somewhere is already at that place and guess what...they don't feel like they've "made it."

In fact, they're probably looking at the person ahead of them saying, "Hey, why am I not THERE yet?"