Here’s an exercise I want you to do right now. Yes, stop what you’re doing and just do it. It’s very easy and will take less than one minute. Look around the room and pick out everything the color blue. Keep a mental note on anything that is blue and hold it to your memory. Got it? OK, now close your eyes and share everything that is green. Huh, yes, Green?
Well, you couldn’t do it because you were focusing on everything that was blue, correct? Which means you were missing everything that is green, yet, you knew it was there but wasn’t focused on it.
Ironically, this is how many people live their lives. When I present this in a seminar or to a client, I relate this exercise to negative and positive. Many people are so focused on the negative, they are unable to see the positive. Even though it is right there in front of them, yet they can’t see it.
You really can’t blame them because we live in a world where negativity is everywhere. It’s in the news, on television, social media, and pretty much all over. Because negativity is so prevalent, we, as a society have become programmed to find what is wrong instead of what is right. Which ultimately effects what we see in life.
In order to identify the positives, you have to be able to find them. This means we have to take the “negative” lenses off your eyes and put on a new set of “positive” lenses. It is an incredibly simple act but extremely difficult at the same time. Just like the exercise above where you are focusing on the blue, and not able to see the green.
An easy solution, is ask yourself the question throughout the day, “What’s the positive” and eventually, you will start having the answers. This is when you have successfully changed your lenses, and now able to see the “Green”.
