Attention is Reward

Posted by admin on Jan 16, 2008 in Personal Development | 0 comments

Attention is a reward.

 

By: Mike Dolpies

 

Let precedent give way to principle in your life. Recognize that happiness, achievement and growth are normal, and look for ways to increase them, have more of them. Of course sorrow, mistakes, sickness, rut jobs and problems are also parts of life; but the more attention you give them, the more you encourage them to settle into your everyday affairs. Attention is a kind of reward; and whatever you reward in life; you encourage to come back for more reward. Pay attention to the experiences which pay off most. Stop dwelling on your mistakes; start and concentrate on studying your achievements and suc­cesses, however small they may be.

 Study your mistakes so ever briefly and just extract the lesson and take the wisdom with you. If you don’t move on and make the same mistake again you’re lacking in common sense! In short, don’t reward your past failures, they don’t deserve it! As an NFL quarterback needs a short memory so do you when it comes to mistakes!  Suppose you have failed at something, or not done well at it; won’t other people hold that against you? They probably will, but there are ways to overcome that. One simple way is to allow your actions to begin speaking for you! If others; boss, spouse, children, employee, or clients see you improving then your actions are building your credibility. You’ll then win the trust of others and gain momentum for future success! 

It’s also common to look for what’s wrong with people, rather than for what’s right about them. “If you can’t make good at one thing,” says tradition, “how can you expect to make good at something else, something bigger?” But let’s say you are a good quarterback, and the coach puts you in at tackle. You play your heart out, and get slaughtered. That still doesn’t mean you are not a good quarterback, and might have won the game playing in your right position. Put yourself and others in “positions” where each of you will shine. There’s no need to spend your life doing something or giving attention to activities that don’t get you results! And chances are if you’re not good at something your results will show it.

 

Notice here I don’t talk about doing what you love or what you enjoy only! That is not pragmatic. You may possess a valuable skill that you must exploit to earn your keep, whether you take great joy in it doesn’t matter! Sometimes you need to “just do it!”

 

If we ever find ourselves in a position of having to reward attention to something that we no longer enjoy doing anymore then we must take practical, logical, rational and non-emotional steps to begin doing something we do enjoy that will help us reach our financial goals and elevate our success! It may make sense for you to just “jump in” or it may not, you be the judge! Here’s an honest example from my own life; I personally much rather enjoy writing and speaking to groups of adults more than being at the Karate school for the evening! But from a pragmatic point of view, that’s one of my businesses, I’m good at it and it’s something that I can always count on to be there for me even if no one wants to read my words or cared to hear me speak ever again! I’m just pragmatic about staying in the business that I’ve been in for so long. Just because I don’t love it as much as I did when I was nineteen and just starting out is irrelevant! Remember we need to be pragmatic!

 

© 2007 By Mike Dolpies

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