Day 2: Choosing Your Focus – Guarding Your Energy

“Energy flows where attention goes—guard it like your most valuable asset.” Because it is!!

Without realizing it, we often spend the day focusing on irritations, bad news, or what other people are doing wrong. We attribute this to keeping up with the news. Things that we deem important in order to stay in touch with our world. We have a tendency to take a potential scenario and run through all of the negative possibilities, listening to all the changes going on with politics and thinking as the people reporting the facts, and then thinking about how we can prepare ourselves for the worst. That is so we don’t look stupid and feel unprepared.

This drains mental and physical energy that could have gone into training, meal prep, recovery in the way of mental downtime, listening to something that builds us up and not down, or preparing ourselves for a positive uphill battle - days of conquests.  Choosing your focus means filtering your inputs. You decide which thoughts get your time. You decide to invest energy in things that make you healthier, not more anxious.

You decide which subjects you have a direct impact on, and not be part of the collective who can only say – “Yah, what they said”. When you notice you’re getting pulled into negativity, pause, breathe, and choose: “What will help my mind and body right now?”  That’s real mental strength.