It can be super challenging in a world full of constant media inputs to shift our mindset.
What we focus on grows.
If you are feeding your mind news and social media all day long, it’s going to bring you down, not up. Studies are proving this over and over again.
- We used to watch just 30 minutes of news with Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather or Connie Chung. Now we’re devouring the news 24/7.
- We used to look up information in the Encyclopedia. Now we just ask robot box.
- We used to spend time at the library more. Now we have access to a whole library on our device.
The amount of information we have at our fingertips is astounding – and overwhelming! It’s also distracting us from being present. This flood of information is creating static in our brain.
Our ability to turn-off and tune-in needs to be cultivated to shift our mindset.
In a popular commencement address at Kenyon College in Ohio in 2005 titled This is Water, David Foster Wallace said, “Learning how to think really means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”
We agree.
One impactful way to shift our mindset and our attention is to cultivate gratitude.
Um, please don’t stop reading because you’ve heard this before.
It’s important for your health and the health of all those around you.
Keeping a gratitude journal or simply taking a moment each day to appreciate the positives in your life can shift your focus – away from what’s lacking, what’s hard and what’s happening outside of our control – and reinforce a grateful heart.
We all know this not-so-secret tool – but do you do it?
Too often, we gloss over the obvious. This is a simple and profound tool. And it’s FREE! When was the last time you actually did this?
We have clients who originally passed on this challenge, but then saw how impactful it was for other group members. It really is a game changer. You have nothing to lose except a few moments of reflection.
