You Get What You Focus On, Period.

I have been studying and practicing the Law of Attraction for almost a dozen years.  In that time I have transformed my life and have had so many dreams come true.  One thing that has surprised me a bit, I think, is that no matter how far along you get if you don't keep your focus on your happiness and how you feel it is so easy to back slide.

This has happened to me recently.  Things have been going so well for me and then they started to back slide just a bit.  I realized it has been quite a while since I tended to my feelings and my happiness.  With all that is happening in the world around us, it is so easy to get "caught up" - caught up in other people's drama - from the international news to your next door neighbor, co-workers, relatives, even your Facebook friends - you get the picture.  What I have realized is that you just have to make your emotional welfare - your happiness - your number one priority, otherwise you start to backslide.  Little by little you just keep going lower and lower and then you start to notice it showing up in your outside world - reality check!

The old saying "you get what you focus on" is true in every situation, period.  I recently read the quote "Focus Makes You Fabulous" - that is true if you focus on fabulous things.  If you focus on what is not right in the world, with your spouse or in your life, guess what?  Yep, you get even more of it!!  But the good news is that is you focus on what is right, you get more of that.

I had a bit of a breakthrough recently when someone else's drama was starting to make me feel really, really bad.  One thing I try very hard to do is to never, ever go there (feeling really, really bad).  In a moment of inspiration the perfect, calming thought entered my head: "This has nothing to do with me" and immediately I felt better.  I have been using this a lot lately - "this has nothing to do with me" and it really is keeping me from going there - from getting caught up in other people's drama, or the news, or anything.  It is an instant detachment that really works.   My goal is to use that phrase to detach and change focus.  It is a closing of the door on that subject.

You do get what you focus on, no matter how big or small.  Today I am focusing on unconditional happiness - on things that make my heart sing an and spirit soar, and all of the many, many things that are so right in my world.  What are you focusing on today?