The Choice of Seeing
You’ve got a choice today.
What will you choose to think about and focus on today?
Actually, you have 70,000* choices — thoughts that come your way and want to make a home in your brain (* see Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HBGI) & Cleveland Clinic).
We must use selective attention to choose what thoughts we will entertain and focus on. We can’t manage 70,000 thoughts.
Remember, energy flows where attention goes.
Sometimes we develop tunnel vision — good, bad, or neutral.
Something, often a crisis event steals the spotlight and grabs the microphone— seeking to command the attention of your brain… and the energy of your body, the focus of your day… your life.
Because, as author and poet Annie Dillard brilliantly observed, “How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.”
ONE amazing benefit of embracing and expressing gratitude is the POWER OF GRATITUDE to “lift our eyes off the things we lack so that we might see the blessings we possess.”
Being grateful helps us to see, spot, or find something good going on even in the midst of tough times and bad things — which are standard fare in 2024.
Growing gratitude helps create a back channel of good and a thread of virtue that helps create calm in chaos and hope on dark days and in difficult moments.
Take a moment now, to see and appreciate something good in your life, environment, or circle of contacts.
It will reward you with rich dividends later.
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