Shifting Focus

Have you ever noticed that when you have one specific thing constantly on your mind, that you will keep seeing it everywhere? Whether it be in real life, on the TV or in a magazine.

The thing that occupies the largest part of your thoughts also enters into what you seem to hear and do.

 

For example, You think of buying a specific car and suddenly it seems like every Tom, Dick and Harry is driving around in it.

Associate a song with a person? Every radio station plays it endlessly on repeat.

Starting a new hobby like running? People stamped around you like wildebeest migrating in Africa.

Now I always thought that these “coincidences” were signs and that because I keep seeing the car the guy I like drives that it must mean that he and I are meant to be together.

But driving to work this morning after running late because I stayed up last night and seeing runners cause traffic jams rivalling any highway disaster, it suddenly hit me.

These are not signed/omens/confirmations or anything like that. It is just me and what I am focused on.

 

When you have something on your mind that, at that point, is of great importance to you or simply of intense interest, then you will subconsciously seek it. Take me. I always say that I am the combination of two of the worst things: I am both stubborn and single-minded to the point of recklessness. 

Once I get an idea in my head, or a goal I want to reach, then it goes to time. I will do whatever it takes to get where I need (or want) to be.

I recently got to thinking about going back to school,  finishing my nursing degree. And it’s all I see, hear and think of! Every person I see is a nurse, I have been in the hospital a few times the past few months and they (nurses) have been a blessing to me and have given me the nudge, I needed to go back to school. The last time I was admitted to the hospital, I was laying in bed at night and  I couldn’t fall asleep- That’s when I got the push from one of my nurse’s and now its all I can think of! I am nurse mad! At least I’m not boy mad, I count this as a step up for me.

I can promise you now, I will be too focused on anything/anyone until I graduate.

That is what hit me going to work today.

Its all about focus and what you focus on.

It’s not the universe conspiring to re-affirm what you think or feel (although I sometimes still think it is), but it is just you.. You and your focal point.

This got me thinking back a bit and I saw how my focus has shifted from one thing to the next throughout my life and every stage in my life. It also made me realize how I would totally forget about one thing, once my focus moved to another thing.

How often do we focus on the negative, the bad and on the things that keep us down?

And then we wonder why we find ourselves down and out and without hope.

Its because we allow ourselves to let that become our focus.

Try this today, shift your focus to something positive.

If you are feeling body conscious and that flabby ass is getting you down- stop thinking about it! Rather think about your beautifully toned arms, amazing smile and the fact that despite the rain you are having a really good hair day.

If you feel like you have lost faith and that God seems very far away, focus on Him. Let Him be part of everything you do. Take a minute to shoot a short prayer out, hum one of your favourite hymns, or simply say “God, I need you”.

If you do this often enough, soon you will see Him in everything you do. You will hear Him in every song, smell Him in the fresh summer rain and feel Him in your soul.

 

Shift your focus. It may just shift your life in the right direction or at least out of the rut that you find yourself in.