Focus on Opportunities

What happens when you are first presented with a new opportunity, is your first reaction to say:

“What? That’s crazy!”, or “No, can’t be done.  I’ve never done it before!” or “No way, this’ll just take me off track!”, because at first, it doesn’t seem in alignment with what you’re currently doing, or what you perceive to be what you need?

What happens when we are introduced to something new is that we look at this opportunity with our current mind and not with a mind that gets excited when something new crosses our path.

There is a saying that, “A mind once stretched can never return to its original proportion”, it becomes like a rubber-band – stretch a rubber-band and it stays more expanded than it was originally.

Nevertheless, as human beings, we have a subconscious mind, and its job is to keep us happy and in our comfort zone, until we make it quite clear to it, that we REALLY want to make changes in any particular area.

You need to prove to your subconscious mind that you are open to new material and innovation. Because, you will have tried to make many changes in the past and not stuck with these attempts.
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Focus on Expectations

Focusing is actually made up of two generic components:

1. Expectations

2. Opportunities

Here I’ll deal with Focusing on Expectations.

What expectations of success or non-success do you focus on:

a) when you hear a new opportunity for the first time?
b) before you contemplate a new venture?
c) illustrated by your reaction to a new idea?
d) when you begin a new venture?

Are you the sort of person who in the first instance focuses on the magnificent opportunities that will arise from this new venture or idea? OR
Are you the sort of person who immediately focuses on the multitudinous challenges, difficulties, uncertainties, time constraints?

 Who instinctively says: “No, not for me!”
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Opening up Your Focus

When you are born, you have no limitations, no critical faculty to entwine you with the bondage of barriers, no judgments about whether you can or can’t do something.

You are free-spirited, unshackled, without blinkers on the sides of your eyes.

Everything is new, you try it all. Stumbling, falling, nothing stops you.

Even if the adults around you have already lassoed you into their perceptions of who they think you are, you are still free – until about the age of 7, the Imprint Period.

However, the tell-tale signs are already making their mark. You are copying everything you see and hear that your carers are saying and doing – everything.

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