When I attended my first 'Investment in Excellence' session I discovered that there is a special part of the brain called the reticular activating system that filters out the noise, the rubbish and the irrelevant in the world around you to allow you to focus on what you are looking for...

The world around us is full of success and failure, inspiration and boredom, happiness and sadness, opportunities and problems. So if you’re looking for success, inspiration, happiness and opportunities, you will find them. Unfortunately it also means that if you are looking for failure, boredom, sadness and problems, you will find them too. The truth is that what you experience in life depends on what you are looking for!

So how do I cope with all this? Well I try to start each day positively and optimistically. However hard it is, I make a conscious decision everyday to filter out the negatives and the pessimistic influences in my life and I refuse to waste my precious time with people who are negative, boring and destructive.

I constantly search for successes, inspiration, happiness and opportunities and usually it delivers brilliant results. Why don't you try it?

Chris