“Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.”
Where are you looking and where are you going?
“Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.”
Martha Beck
Your attention defines the quality of your life.
What you put your attention on grows.
Where do you put your beam of attention currently?
When you wake up in the morning, where do you put your attention? Last thing at night?
If you could direct your attention on what you want to focus on - how would you do it?
Focussing on pleasurable, interesting, stimulating, interesting projects is fun.
How can you direct your attention to the thoughts, things and feelings that enhance your life versus the worries, complaints and concerns?
[In my 8 years at Psychologies - these are the mind training tools I heard that helped enhance and train the brain for positive attention - journalling, coaching prompts, mindful body scan, meditation, visualisations….]
What works for you?
If you want to use writing to focus your mind, I’m running the Heart Leap writing hour at 9am today.
Here’s the Zoom link:
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