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Favorite books:  "Tools of Titans" by Tim Ferris
                                "Atomic Habits" by James Clear 
                                "On Fire" by John O'Leary
Favorite podcasts:  "School Of Greatness"  Lewis Howse
                                      "Life Coach School"  Brooke Castillo
                                      "Kwik Brain"  Jim Kwik

The idea that your thoughts create your reality is Truer than any of us would like to realize until we recognize it is true and then you get excited and really really start watching what you allow into your brain because it affects us so much.
Now, If you’re like me sometimes you hear people say “it’s what your focusing on”. Just think about something else, focus on something else and you will change the way you feel. And in the middle of something hard that is frustating to hear, but sometimes it’s true. For example, We had our family down here with us all week and the house was full of laughter and joy and when they all left and it was just me and Eric….. I felt a little sad, the house felt a little empty but I know that the reason I was sad was because of the contrast of the house being full of people I love and now it’s quiet. I was focusing on what was instead of what is right in front of me.  I was feeling the contrast….I let myself feel it for a little bit but then we got busy exercising, riding bikes, focusing on other things like reading, talking over lunch about what we would do for the day and dinner, enjoying each others company and suddenly I felt so much better….that is an easy scenario of how changing your focus can fix your feelings. Start being intentional and aware of the thoughts in your head because that will really help you be able to feel better when the situation just needs a focus change.
Scott Adams has a quote about our brain and how it isn’t designed to process everything in its environment, so it has to set up filters. And those filters are what you pay attention to, what you focus on. Think about that for a minute and maybe pause this for a second if you need to and really think about what it is you are paying attention to regularly. Is it the news? Social Media? Gossip? Are you filling your brain with enough positive input to outweigh the negative? When you focus on filling your brain with positive input, it creates filters for your mind that are positive and the more you do that, the better you are able to feel calm during the storm. At first, your brain is going to want to jump back to the drama, because if you have been used to drama your brain literally has created grooves/patterns that are comfortable for you. Drama can be a drug that you keep going back to. So at first avoiding it will be hard but eventually, you’ll want it less and less. Think of creating a new path through a forest…..at first it’s a lot of work, but once the path is taken a few times, it becomes way easier to use. That is how it is for your brain as well. These filters we create are how we look at the world.

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