Focus

Remember when you were 16 or 17 years old, had your learners license and were taking drivers training? They always told you to look ahead and to focus on where you want to go. While driving, if you focus on where you don't want to go, you'll inevitably end up going there. I can just imagine trying to drive while looking only in the rear view mirror. It would be madness. It occurred to me... Does your career, emotional and spiritual health follow where you are focused?

If we constantly complain about how poopy our bosses/co-workers/jobs are, will we only see the position of failure we have ended up in? If we wallow incessantly in emotional turmoil, will we find the emotional lows overwhelming the highs? If we beat ourselves up in the depths of spiritual darkness, will we find nothing but emptiness inside?

Maybe when we focus on the awful things that life has given us we will inevitably end up in self destruction. But when we look beyond, we will rise above the dark beneath the clouds to discover the bright lights in our lives that we could never see before because we'd been too occupied looking down. And the rear view mirror will only be a reminder of where we once were and drive us to keep looking up and beyond.