Success depends on focus.

Yes, the key to success is how and where you focus. Focus on your dreams and the day-to-day steps needed to get you there and you’re on the way. Focus on what’s wrong with your daily grind and you’ll never get to your dreams.

While you’re focusing on what’s going right in the world around you, focusing on what your team members are doing right, what your family members are doing right, and what you’re doing right, your focus is on success. As you focus on success, you’re open to the different and often surprising pathways to that success.

Daydream about where you want your life to be headed. It makes it so much more fun to get there!

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Everyone on this planet has had problems and suffered setbacks. Everyone…no one leads a charmed life of complete ease.

How is it that some people seem to sail through their troubled times in style while others stay stuck in the unfairness and despair?

Simple – mindset predicts outcome.

People who focus on the problem get stuck in the problem. People who focus on possible solutions find productive paths through their problems.

When you can look at problems as puzzles to be worked instead of pain that’s been inflicted on you from some person or business or government that’s out to get you, you’ve unlocked the pathway to a happier, more successful life. Go, you!

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You’ve had a lot of gardeners in your life.

What you think and feel today is largely due to the seeds planted in your formative years. Your garden is made of the beliefs you’ve formed based on those seeds, especially the ones you really believed in and nurtured.

Are there weeds that could be eliminated – probably, because each of us have allowed some to grow.

As you move forward in your life, think of each opinion you hold as a plant in your garden. Do you want more of it, or is it a weed that you can pull? Every now and then, stop and marvel at how beautiful your garden is, and think about the seeds you’re planting in the lives of others.

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Do you slow down your own emotional healing?

Many, and maybe most, people do. It’s hard to let go of something that hurts your heart or your pride. It can take a very long time to let go of those wounds, and it doesn’t have to.

Just like you leave a scab alone to let your skin heal from a cut, you can leave the memory alone when it pops back into your head, demanding attention. Think of it as the scab – a reminder of the painful thing that happened and an indication that healing is happening.

Just as you try not to pick at the scab on your skin, try not to pick at the scab in your mind. When the memory pops up inside your head, cover it with a mental bandage and focus on something else. Distract yourself and let your emotions heal in peace.

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My friend June has a very simple litmus test that helps her stay on an even keel each day: “does it give me energy or does it take it away?”

When she needs to decide whether or not to do something, she asks herself, “does it give me energy or does it take it away?”

When she has a lot to do and someone wants her to do something with them, she asks herself, “does it give me energy or does it take it away?”

When she’s deciding which of her to-do’s to do next, she asks herself about each one, “does it give me energy or does it take it away?”

Try it – it’s a very simple, very powerful way to keep your mental wellbeing a priority in your life.

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You probably know someone like this: ready to share their negative opinion about everything and everyone.

Yikes…toxic!

They have an opinion about everyone and it’s usually not a very nice one.

When someone behaves like that, it’s about them, not about the person they’re judging. It may be insecurity, it may be parroting what they learned as a child, and it could be they think the world and everyone in it is out to get them. Sad, right?

If you can easily put them outside your orbit, great. If not, then make up a story about why they’re so negative that helps you find some compassion for them. Don’t tell the story out loud – it’s just for you, to help you still be at your best when they’re at their worst.

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Does the voice inside your head keep reminding you of a painful life episode?

When Dad’s Alzheimer’s disease made it dangerous for him to drive, my brothers and I got together and convinced him to stop. I bought his car, and though he was OK with it at first, he came to believe that I stole his car. He looked at me with hatred in his eyes and the last time I saw him he was yelling at me to get out.

Did it sting? Yes. Does the voice inside my head beat me up about it? No, because Dad wasn’t able to process things clearly, and I was. I reminded myself that it wasn’t his rational, loving brain in charge, it was his broken one, and that helped me cope with his anger. I loved him and loved myself enough to let the rest go.

Who do you need to love like that today? What do you need to remind your brain to let go of?

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Are you guilty of playing small? Do you go through life with few or no goals or a tiny goal, just living each day in the hopes that something good will happen?

Yes, good things happen all the time, and it can be tough to recognize an opportunity if you have no goals.

Do you know what you want your life to be this time next year? What will have to change in order for that 12-months-from-now dream to become a reality? More education? More time with friends? More travel?

You have this one life that you’re walking through – do what you need you to do, do what you want to do, and do what makes you happy. Follow your own intuition and dare to dream big so you can learn to play bigger.  

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The first place where your dream can become a reality is in your imagination.

What do you want? I want to live near the beach, and I daydream about beach life often. When will it become a reality? One day it will, and I can be patient in the meantime because the daydreams are fun and satisfying.

What do you want, and can you simply enjoy your daydream until your dream happens, too?

Many people refuse to use their imagination to enjoy their dream because they don’t want to be disappointed. They’re missing out on loads of fun! When you can enjoy playing with your dream in your imagination, you’ll have the feeling of living your dream each time you do it, and that’s almost as good as the real thing!

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Have you ever used the phrase, “that person just my buttons”? Do you know what the important word in that sentence is?

My.

Those buttons belong to you…yes, there are people who annoy the living snot out of you. Most of us know a person or two like that. Remember, though, those are YOUR buttons.

Let’s say your partner chews with their mouth open and it pushes your buttons. You have three choices:

Shifting your focus takes diligent practice, and when you get good at it, those who push your buttons will have no power over you because you’ve hidden your buttons. Yay, you!

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