Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
What you focus on is everything.
Imagine your “focus” is a steering wheel in a car.
Where you steer towards is what you get.
Of course, sometimes you hit an icy patch or something similar and go off course, but, by and large, where you steer is where you go.
Steer towards what you want.*
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* What you truly, deeply want.
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Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. – Charles Dickens Everything we experience has the potential to be a learning and growing experience. It is up to…
Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee. – Michel de Montaigne The only things that are real are those things in front of you. Your opinion of things in front of you is not real. What’s actually in front of you is what’s real. You can only act on what’s…
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