Ahhh focus, you've gotta love it! Why? Because what we spend our time focusing on creates our physical reality. Focus is so powerfully informative; it reveals to us where we are spending our mental time, energy and attention, it reveals to us what our "story" is, what our beliefs are, what we expect, and most important, it reveals to us what we are creating in our life, day in and day out. And in each revelation is an invitation to think and do something different that will bring about a result that we really do want. Simply put, you can make your life go any way you choose to focus. Powerful? Indeed!
 
Let's take a closer look. Focus, in a nut shell, is where we hang out with ourselves in the privacy of our own mind.  When no one is looking, listening or asking, we are spending our time dreaming or doubting, empowering or disempowering ourselves, saying yes or no to life, telling ourselves we are lucky or unlucky, thinking about what we do want or what we don't want. It goes on and on and in it all we are always in the state of creating based on our inner dialog and emotional landscape. Focus is how we have created the life we are currently living!
 
Focus is built by the words we tell ourselves. Those words create thoughts which in turn create our feelings that are either of a positive or negative nature. And because scientific studies prove that feelings have energetic and magnetic properties, we know that we are literally attracting to us more of what we are spending our time thinking and feeling. Wow! Want to know what your focus is around money, take a look at your bank accounts; vibrant well-being, your health is your indicator; career, feeling energized by what you do is your gauge; relationships, the types of people surrounding you are your messengers. So how do you know if that all powerful focus of yours is where you want it to be? Simple, when you are on the right track you feel good. An easy way to think about the power of your thoughts and feelings is to see yourself as one big human magnet attracting people, circumstances and events that are always aligned with your focus!
 
We've all had days that started like this: you wake up and almost instantly begin thinking about something that displeases you; someone's errant behavior, a pressing obligation, a sticky situation, some scenario that feels bad and starts you off on the wrong foot. And while you get ready for the day ahead you become more and more irritated by what you are thinking, now feeling anxious and upset. Things seem to keep heading downhill from there, feeling like they are out of control. The events of the day usually follow your negative thinking (your self-fulfilling prophecy) until at the end of the day you get back into bed with a big sigh, happy for this one to be over and done. Do you know it can be another way? It's true! At any point in time you can choose a better outcome by changing your focus.
 
So let's get deliberate! Let's start getting you more of what you really do want! Get ready to release the role of a victim, choosing to be offended by what you see, and enthusiastically step into intentional creation. It's time to choose a great day over a bad or even mediocre one. Here are some tools, tips and strategies that will help: