“Being disciplined in your approach to each day of your life and accomplishing the things you dream of starts by disciplining your thoughts. Focus on those things you want to occur, not those that you do not want to occur.”
– Tony Dungy, Super Bowl Champion Coach and Player
No matter what you’re going through right now, you can quickly change the direction of your life by changing the thoughts you focus on most.
What you focus on most determines the direction of your life.
If you constantly focus on fears, doubts, and everything that can go wrong, you will find a lot more things going wrong.
If you focus on goals that excite you, reasons you can succeed, and everything that can go right, you will find a lot more things going right.
This happens because whatever you go looking for, you are more likely to find.
The person actively focused on solutions and opportunities will find them.
The person focused on problems and obstacles will find those.
It becomes a self-fulfilling cycle.
Always remember this: Your life will move in the direction of your most dominant thoughts.
If you want to change your life, you have to make a mental shift and change what you’re thinking about most.
This requires that you be disciplined with your thinking.
Bad habits lead to bad results, and that goes for habitual thinking too.
Don’t let your mind default to focusing on the negative. Have the discipline to notice negative, fearful thoughts and replace them with positive, hopeful thoughts.
Just like changing any other habit, it takes discipline and repetition to change, but it’s worth the effort.
WINNING SELF-TALK:
(Try repeating the following affirmation to yourself as often as possible over the next seven days. Notice how it changes your mindset.)
“I focus on only the things I have total control over: my effort and my attitude.”
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