{"id":3408,"date":"2016-05-19T01:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T08:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coachingreallyworks.com\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2016-10-25T02:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:56:29","slug":"how-to-direct-your-life-to-fulfill-your-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/how-to-direct-your-life-to-fulfill-your-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Direct Your Life to Fulfill Your Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith plays a conman, in the movie Focus, who\u00a0teaches a young con artist the skill of redirecting people&#8217;s focus so you can pick their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>In my twenties, I learned about this skill the hard way, by getting cheated while exchanging money. It&#8217;s not an easy lesson to forget but somehow we don&#8217;t apply it to the bigger picture of our lives and the time that stolen from us every day, when we fail to choose what we focus on.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In this Video:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>00:30 &#8211; This is Where the Magic Is<br \/>\n01:07 &#8211; Two Sides You Could Look At and Why It Matters<br \/>\n01:43 &#8211; What Do You Do When You Bang Your Finger With a Hammer?<br \/>\n02:05 &#8211; Quote from &#8211; Denis Waitley<br \/>\n02:23 &#8211; Affirmation to Move You Forward<\/p>\n<h2>Listen To The Audio:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\">[powerpress]\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/coaching-really-works-abe\/id931183612\">Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Watch The Video<\/h2>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-99QHgr3VI4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Transcription:<\/h2>\n<p>Now, you know those <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/how-to-stop-struggling-to-reach-your-goals\/\">goals that you have<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you want to run a marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you have some goals for your family. Some special vacation that you want to take.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you have business goals &#8211; some idea, you&#8217;re setting up a new business or moving in a new direction.<\/p>\n<p>What is going to MOVE\u00a0the needle? <strong>What is going to really take you and make that thing happen,<\/strong> rather than it just being some DREAM\u00a0out there &#8211; some idea that maybe someday you&#8217;ll get to it?<\/p>\n<h3>This is Where the Magic Is<\/h3>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s this. FOCUS. Okay? <strong>What you focus on gets done.<\/strong> Where your attention goes, that is what gets taken care of. That&#8217;s where things happen. That&#8217;s where the magic is, okay?<\/p>\n[shareable]Where you attention goes, energy flows.[\/shareable]\n<p>Now those people that win the marathon, their toes probably hurt just as much as the other guy who lost and complained that his toe was bothering him, okay?<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re working towards a goal, when you&#8217;re sitting down to take care of something, are you going to let those little things pull you away? Are you going to look at your watch every 5 minutes, and decide that you&#8217;d rather be doing this, or rather be doing that? Or are you going to say, &#8220;No, <strong>I&#8217;m going to focus on WHAT\u00a0really MATTERS.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n[shareable cite=&#8221;Abe Stone&#8221;]Today, I&#8217;m going to focus on what really matters.[\/shareable]\n[offer-box href=&#8221;http:\/\/sostartover.com&#8221; linktext=&#8221;Reminder: Have you checked out my book? I just released \u201cSo? Start Over!: Experience Clarity, Do What Matters, Live Your Dream\u201d which includes worksheets, cheatsheets, and bonus material. Click here to check it out!&#8221; securecheckout=&#8221;true&#8221; footnote=&#8221;Get It on Amazon&#8221;]\n<h3>Two Sides You Could Look At and Why It Matters<\/h3>\n<p>And equally as important in focusing on what really matters, remember, don&#8217;t focus on the things that are negative, that are pulling you away from your goal. Okay? Maybe you have debt that you&#8217;ve incurred? If you spend all your time worrying and freaking out, and trying to figure out &#8211; &#8220;how am I going to pay back, you&#8217;re going to get more debt, &#8217;cause you&#8217;re just thinking about debt.<\/p>\n<p>But if you think about <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/6-money-budgeting-tips-for-spiritual-people-who-want-to-be-rich\/\">savings, if you think about investing in certain things while you&#8217;re paying off your debt<\/a>.<strong> You&#8217;re changing your focus, and you&#8217;re moving into areas of GROWTH<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; and not just focusing on the thing that you don&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n[shareable cite=&#8221;Abe Stone&#8221;]Focus on GROWTH and not things you don&#8217;t want.[\/shareable]\n<p>It&#8217;s the same thing in a relationship. If you focus on the bad times, of course you&#8217;re going to get more bad times, right?<\/p>\n<h3>What Do You Do When You Bang Your Finger With a Hammer?<\/h3>\n<p>If you hit your finger with a hammer while you&#8217;re nailing something down, you know what you usually do to get your focus off that thumb?<a href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/5-hopping-ideas-for-when-life-disappoints-you-or-you-stub-your-toe\/\"> You jump up and down, and you scream.<\/a> And that jumping up and down and screaming gets your mind off of the pain that you&#8217;re going through. And it&#8217;s very much like that. That&#8217;s a natural reaction that you have. But we can do that with so many other things in life as well.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, so remember, <strong>what you focus on gets DONE.<\/strong><\/p>\n[shareable cite=&#8221;Abe Stone&#8221;]What you focus on gets done.[\/shareable]\n<hr \/>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s your quote for today.<\/p>\n[shareable cite=&#8221;Denis Waitley&#8221;]\u00a0Don&#8217;t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward towards finding the answer.\u00a0#quote[\/shareable]\n<p>Okay, now here&#8217;s your affirmation for today. Remember, post it by your bed or on the mirror &#8211; somewhere in the kitchen on your way out. 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