When bad things happen, it tends to overshadow the day. It doesn’t take much to take something pure and make it something else. You can choose to focus on the purity. You can isolate out the bad parts, filter your experience. Why would you let one bad thing that happened ruin your day that had good things in it? Focus on your greatness.
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New Book: The View From The Deck: Thoughts on Values, Vision, and Gratitude
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I have published a new book, it's called "The View from the Deck Thoughts on Values, Vision and Gratitude." If you like morning motivation, you're gonna love this book. You can find it on Kindle and in paperback form on Amazon and the audiobook is coming soon. So check out "The View from the Deck Thoughts on Values, Vision and Gratitude" on Amazon now. The bad always echoes louder than the good, it's the nature of how the human mind works. When something goes wrong, we feel that, that really overshadows the day. And that's probably natural. If you have a glass of clear water and you put a few drops of dirt in it, you have dirty water. On the upside, if you have a glass of clear hot water and you put a few grains of instant coffee in it, you have coffee. It doesn't take much to take something pure and make it something else. And it's the same way with your day, your week, your experience. If it could be full of good and pure and clean things but drop something cataminated into it and suddenly, that is the day. That is the focus. But you have a choice. You have a choice to focus on the purity. Unlike that glass of cataminated water, you can isolate out the bad parts. You can focus on the good parts. You can filter your experience. If you had six things happen today and five were good and one was bad, why would you let that make that a bad day? Isn't that kind of crazy? So yes, there's that bad thing. There might be that one thing you're not good at and five things you're good at. And that's what you're going to point to and say, well, that's why I'm an imposter. That's why I'm not that good. No, do not do that. It said focus on all the good things. Focus on what you're great at. Focus on your greatness. Of course, you're not good at everything. Nobody is good at everything. I am good at one thing for every five things I'm bad at. But it doesn't matter because I get paid for the things I'm good at and nobody cares about the things I'm bad at. And it's the same for you. Focus on what you're good at. Focus on your gifts. Focus on your greatness. Get paid for your greatness. Change the world with your greatness. And then hire someone to do the stuff you're not good at and you'll be fine. But focus on that greatness. Filter it to only the greatness. I have published a new book called The View from the Deck, Thoughts on Values, Vision and Gratitude. If you like morning motivation, you're going to love this book. A lot of the same concepts. The basic principle of the book is that I was coaching clients and they were telling me about their dream life and I was recognizing elements of their dream life in my everyday life. And it made me realize there's things in my life that people are dreaming of. And there's things in my life that the me of a few years ago would absolutely have given his right arm for. The answer is you've got the same. So I took these concepts about values and what makes us do what we do. Vision, where we want to be in gratitude, appreciating the awesome things we have and put them together into one awesome book called The View from the Deck, Values, Vision and Gratitude. You can find it on amazon.com. Just search for Michael Whitehouse, The View from the Deck, and get your copy today.
