Your Attention

What are the things you pay more attention too on a daily basis? Are you naturally pessimistic or optimistic about stuff yhat happens to you? These are simple questions but the shape your life more than anything else.

Your mind makes decisions so the state of your mind is t a major influence over the choices you'll be making.

Epictetus once said, “You become what you give your attention to.”

All our thoughts, time and focus shape who we are or who we become in the future.

Let's just say a person constantly thinks about his or her problems, more than the things to be grateful for, it sets their mood to a state of depression which leads to stress and all sorts of negativity. It's not good for health so you can end up being sick, it's not good for proper judgement of situations so you miss out on th chance of taking the right steps. But if that same person was to think about gratitude, kindness, love, generosity, learning, they start growing.

Their minds are positive and that impacts both their health and decisions in positive ways.

But it's no easy I'll just have to admit it. It hs gotten moe complicated because of all the distractions, from the Internet. Social media is filled with stuff that can easily make you bitter or envious. You see wars going on, rape cases, murder, natural disasters and you tune your entire mind or perception about the world in that direction. You become pessimistic because of that and end up only seeing the bad ot evil in people.

But assuming all of the Internet was filled with good news, then you'd be happy and think, what a good world. Yes the reality is that both good and bad exists, but the question is which would you pay more attention to.

It's good to be aware of the bad things so you can order your life away from them. But as you fill your mind with more good than bad, you're building a better person.

It's all in what you decide to pay attention to.
We need to decide where we put our energy, what we give our ears and eyes to. Especially if you won and control your gadgets, you get to decide what to watch and if you bump into negative, well it's your own device and you have the right to skip the content so it doesn't contaminate you.

Our attention is powerful. It’s not just what we look at, it’s what we become. At this point we're living in an attention economy. People are doing all sorts of things both good and bad just t get attention. Don't give your attention to the wrong ones.

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