Changing Focus

"Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings."
Andre Maurois
1885-1967, Writer
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Reading this quote today, I find that I have spent far too much time in the past thinking about things that have happened in the past, all the while rendering myself unable to forge ahead with the tasks of the day. Focusing on the negative only breeds more of the same—we are what we think about most of the time and we will never obtain that which we negate. By focusing on the positives and the positive outcomes we look towards and aspire to, we set the wheels in motion to attract those things to us.