Focus

I finished re-reading You Are a Badass, by Jen Sincero. This is a focus technique. I have probably cycled through Meditations 20 times, just to keep the ideas alive.

Then I remembered the @visakanv emphasis on focus. Joke about the outcomes you want, etc.

And then I thought about a houseguest who left yesterday. His focus. And how all weekend I had to be aware and alert when he spoke, because mindset (a good one or a bad one) is contagious. I had to consciously reject (silently, in my head, of course) his statements of his reality. That is not my reality.

But oh God, mindset is contagious. Our houseguest has a back problem, for which he has had surgery. When he stands up, his back hurts. Once he is standing, everything is good.

Damned if my wife didn’t have the same pain by the end of the weekend when she stood up from sitting on the couch.

As a man thinketh.

I’m now thinking of the experience that Marcus Aurelius describes in Meditations, when his philosopher friend is ill but refuses to talk about his illness with his visitors, instead speaking only of philosophy. Presently, he recovers.

Be that man.

Focus your attention on what you want more of.