It’s a matter of focus

It’s Sunday morning and I’m getting ready to head to the DFW area for an appointment. But I wanted to take a second to reflect. This week was a crazy week. It had its ups-and-downs. At times I seemed to focus more on the negatives.

The reality is there were a lot more positives this week than negatives. When I look back at the week, I realize this. It was easy to focus on the negatives because they made me mad and made me want to hit something. The positives didn’t have that same reaction so they were easily forgotten. Why did they not have that same reaction? I’m not sure. Perhaps it’s because we have trained ourselves to focus on the bad and those things that cause us problems. 

So, I guess the point of this is to say that good and bad things will always happen. The way we respond to them is up to us. What we focus on is all on us. We can choose to look at the negative or we can choose to focus on the good.