The law of magnification

‘‘Focus your thoughts on these things: all that is is true, all that is holy, all that is just, all that i pure, all that is lovely, and all that is worthy of praise”- The Bible: Philippians 4:8

The reason I choose this scripture is to drive one point home what you focus on will eventually become your reality, let that sink in.

Has it ever happened to you were you seem to see just one and the same thing or person everywhere? I for one have arachnophobia, which is the fear of spiders and trust me I am always the one who seems to see them first-so I can kill them before they can kill me. The point of this isn’t about spiders or fear, its about what we focus on and the power we give to the things we choose to focus on. In that moment of focus we give instructions to our minds to blur everything else and enhance the ‘quality’ of what we are focusing on.

To make this easier to understand I will use a simple analogy something we’ve all done- using a camera to take a picture. Depending on our age and personality we go through one of three phases when it comes to the area of focus:

1. The don’t care phase
2. The Jack of all traits but master of none phase
3. and The focused and ready to execute phase

Lets talk about the first phase, the phase when nothing matters because time doesn’t seem to be of the essence and mostly when we feel young, wild and free, feeling as though our actions have no repercussions. This is where we have zero focus. Using the analogy it would be the equivalent of not even opening the camera yet knowing what you want to capture. Loosely translated at this phase you know what you aspire to in ten to fifteen years time but you couldn’t bother setting up the goals because your entire vision for your life is either unrealistic or non existent you aren’t making the right decisions because well you’ll cross that bridge when you get to it.

Jack of all traits but master of none, and personally I couldn’t relate any better. This is the stage when we discover all that we can do, when we discover all our talents and abilities but this is also a dangerous phase, you see in this particular phase because we are looking at all we can do we forget to focus on what we can do best and thus we don’t develop any skill, in what we can and cannot do. In this phase we don’t give ourselves enough time to learn any skill because it takes time to learn a skill and by the time our skill is quarter to developed we mover on to another ability and at the of the day we have a cabinet filled with talents and traits and zero skill because we just couldn’t focus long enough to master any skill. It would be the same as wanting to take a picture of this beautiful artwork but before the camera could focus you see another artwork and quickly move the camera to take a picture but before the camera focuses you see another artwork and another one, guess what will happen- you’ll leave the art gallery with no pictures.

The focused and ready to execute phase, this is when the confusion of wanting what others have because it looks good on them versus wanting to master your craft settles. This is where you want to be, this is when the lens focuses and all that’s around including the background and the photo-bombers and every noise becomes blurry and there’s a clear shot waiting for capturing or execution.

All is to say it is of utmost importance what you condition your mind to focus on. What you intentionally focus on tends to multiply and make your mind ready for execution- ready for capturing.

What are you focused on?