Your Focus Can Be Dangerous ⚠️

Yo,

There I was racing around the bend on my local mountain biking trail, rumbling over roots and approaching a big down hill bridge with a rocky drop off on either side.

As I approached the down hill fear kicked in, I stopped pedaling, I looked down to the drop off beside me for a split second and by then it was too late!

I knew I was going down hard and this could be immensely painful.

Luckily for me at the last second I was able to dismount, throw my bike down ahead of me and sprint down the hill by foot, just barely catching myself as I ran at full speed for the 20 yards down the hill in front of me.

Lesson learned. ⚠️ Don’t put my focus where I don’t want to go.

This is what inevitably happens whenever I put my focus in the wrong place.

In this scenario, it was falling off a mountain biking trail and almost getting seriously injured.

In other scenarios, it could be focusing on the problems I have in my business instead of the solutions I desire.

In other scenarios, it could be focusing on old bad habits I’ve been stuck in, instead of the new habits I want to embody.

If I have learned anything in my journey through life so far it’s that what I focus on is what I will get.

👉 The more I focus on what I don’t want, the more my subconscious diverts my energy into going to that place (like off the side of my MTN biking trail.)

The more I focus on what I do want, the more my subconscious receives the message of going to that place (looking down and ahead on the MTN biking trail while continuing to pedal is how I usually gracefully navigate these trails.)

The more aware I become, the more I see the metaphors for my life showing up all around me.

This awareness has driven home the power of focus I speak so often about in this newsletter. Focusing on the outcomes you want, instead of the fear of the outcomes you don’t want is a muscle we must all cultivate and train consistently.

It’s been interesting guiding our members of the 30 day accelerator

through the process of owning their focus, because it reveals to me how an empowering focus can be so elusive for some of us.

At the same time, watching the transformation of some of these people reaffirms to me how matter of fact the process of training your focus is.

It’s like trying to do one of my 30 min jump rope workouts

I often guide people through at the Jump Rope Dudes. If you try to do it while you’re not trained it can feel like an insurmountable task, but if you do it all the time it can feel challenging, but also very attainable.

Your focus works the same way. If you catch yourself constantly having negative thoughts it is partially, because you have an under trained focus.

The external events that make you feel bad about yourself or others will often times not change, but when your focus changes to only seeing opportunities, possibilities and solutions, then your emotional experience and outcomes change as well.

Whether you want to improve at a sport, grow in your career or (insert desired outcome] the guiding factor for the direction of your life is your focus.

Right now, ask yourself where are you being met with the most resistance in your life?

And then ask yourself what are your predominant thoughts and feelings towards this?

If you are focusing on the lack and the negative emotional feelings that accompany it then you are going to continue to get in your own way.

It’s only when your focus changes that the path to success will appear.

Are you picking up what I’m putting down?

If so, I’d love to hear from you via reply or in the comments of this article.

Wishing you a week of laser focus ahead!

Brandon

P.S. I am taking some time off from creating weekly guided meditations to divert more energy into the budding community of people awakening to their full potential in my owned training programs. If you would like to join us this is a great place to start