If You’re Not Getting What You Want In Life, Read This.
3 simple truths to create a profound shift.
“What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.” — Oprah Winfrey
There are 3 psychological concepts you must understand to start getting what you want, and to stop perpetuating what you don’t.
- Attention
- Motivation
- Desire
Attention
The first concept is attention — where you place your focus. Your focus is something you must train. Most people are very lazy with their focus, and their mind becomes like a garden filled with weeds.
Psychologists have a term, “Selective attention,” and what it means is that our mind focuses on things which seem relevant to us. When you’re in a noisy room, if you hear your name being said you’ll hear it, even though all the other noise just sounds like fuzz. When you’re on the road driving, you’ll notice specific cars — whether cars you like or the same car you’re driving.
You can and must train your mind to focus exclusively on the things you desire. The challenge for most of us is that we spend much more of our time focusing on what we’re afraid of. We focus on what we don’t want to happen…
