It is so easy to observe and judge things that you do not like. You are so busy, or so tired, or so disillusioned with life that sometimes it just feels like the world is full of unwanted things. And it is. But it is also full of things that you do want.

Our thoughts are things, they are energy. What you think about is what you create more of. This has been proven over and over again.

What do you think would happen if you started to switch your focus onto things that you do want? And I mean really focus on what you want. NOT, think about what you want and then say “but I can’t have that, its just a pipe dream”.

Start small if you have to. If traffic annoys you, can you focus on the fact that at least you have a car to drive? Can you LOVE the fact that you have your car? Or that you had someone in your life to loan you the car you are driving?

If you do not like your body, can you find something about it to love? The fact that it is alive today? That it got out of bed? If you are reading this from bed, can you focus on the fact that you have eyes and can read it? Can you love your eyes? Or the fact that you are breathing? Can you focus on and LOVE your breath?

If money seems to be a problem for you, can you focus on the fact that you have food? Can you love the fact that you are not starving? Can you love the fact that you have clean water to drink? That you have a roof over your head?

On a personal note. In 2011 I got sick. I got in pretty rough shape. Then in 2012 (still not recovered), I had to put my horse down. This gave me very little excuse to get out and move my body other than yard work, or the occasional walk. I gained almost 40 pounds, and my muscles got weaker. It was very easy to judge and dislike my body.

Here it is the end of 2013 and after a couple of years of not feeling physically my best, I decided that it was time to love my body again. Love the fact that I was now much more physically healthy and love the fact that my body, if I let it, could and would get stronger and fitter.

I started to focus on this. I really wanted to start with a personal trainer, but we couldn’t afford it. I had a local gym website up on my phone for 6 months. A few times a week I would look around the website and imagine going to this work out facility to work with these trainers. I did not focus on the fact that I could not afford it, I focused on the fact that I had a reasonably healthy body (although it was not in the greatest shape), and I LOVED my body and focused on LOVING my situation. I focused on the fact that ‘one day’, I would be able to start attending the workout sessions. I was HAPPY about the fact that I would do it (even if it was “one day…”). I never let myself go to a place of thinking “but I can’t afford it”. I kept myself in a place of happy expectation.

Then at the beginning of November, I was finally able to go. I have worked out two weeks in a row now, (3X per week). The workouts are really hard. I am working out with younger people who are in much better shape than I am. I can not yet do what they can do. But I do not focus on what they are doing. I focus on getting better and better and better myself.

Already I am feeling better. I KNOW that if I just keep focusing on showing up for my life, showing up for my workouts, focusing on loving my body, my body will respond to the energy I am giving it. Loving it, working it.

For quite some time it was really easy to focus on how my body was betraying me. It is hard not being well. But I took that first step. I DECIDED. I decided that it was time to focus on something else. So I did. It started in my head and with my thoughts. Once I started projecting that energy, it was only a matter of time before I was able to manifest the physical by taking inspired action. Without the thoughts, I would not have been inspired.

What we focus on is what we create. I guarantee it.

What can you bring yourself to express love and gratitude towards in your life? What is the part of your life that requires the most change? That is probably where you should start.

It doesn’t matter what it is. Find the one thing that you judge the most, sit down with a piece of paper, and write down everything you can find to be grateful for in that situation.

Hate your job? Can you at least maybe try and find some gratitude for having a job? Or is there someone at work that you like? Can you be grateful for that? Can you find anything about your job that you like?

Nothing in your life can change unless and until you change your thinking. If you think negative things about your job, or your situation, or your health, or your relationships then your job, situation, health, relationships will always provide negative experiences for you.

It is never too early or too late to start. Just pick one thing. You can do it, I know you can!