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I saw an interesting video.
It reminded me of something I knew before, but sometimes forget to think about.
Which is…
You are 100% of what you focus on.
If you focus on having little, then you will have little.
If you focus on finding more, then you will have more.
They used the red car as an example.
Which I thought was, if you buy a red car, suddenly, you notice red cars everywhere.
Though it could work with blue.
Or Cactus Gray, a brand new color that is like an aqua shade of gray.
But in the video, the lady said, “how many red cars did you see on the way to work this morning?”
And the guy answered, “a couple.”
Then she said, “I’ll pay you $100 bucks for every red car you see.”
And he counted in his head that there were seven he could remember. (or something like that)
Then they talked about how he would pay attention to red cars tomorrow and see them everywhere.
Tony Robbins did something like this in an interview once.
He told the guy to look around the room and see everything that was brown.
Then do it with another color.
Now how many brown things would you count if I paid you for everyone you saw.
And the guy had a high number.
They even joked that he was counting shades of brown, like beige, to give himself an added advantage.
The point wasn’t money.
The point was training the brain to notice things, and then counting up the Dub’s, so you get a shot of dopamine as a reward for noticing.
A natural high from winning.
Which is the same thing with red cars or blue cars, or counting cars.
You get what you focus on.
Like opportunity.
Like Wins.
Yesterday, I added ten more books to the Google Play Books Center.
And got an opportunity to turn them into AUDIOBOOKS.
That can be loaded onto Findaway Voices (with a little work) which expands the audiobook reach.
So a W.
A big W for reaching new markets.
My brain wanted to go to “how do I find new folks in those markets” instead of shooting a shot of dopamine into my cortex.
Because…
I was hanging out with someone who is a pragmatist and she liked to be a Joe Friday.
“Just the facts.”
I had to pause and consider for a moment, my environment.
And remember where I came from.
Not Pine Bluff, though I’ve shared enough ideas about it.
I have to remind myself sometimes of what I’ve done, what I can do, who I am, and why opportunity always presents itself.
Because I look for it.
And sure, growing in new markets might be tough.
But..
Tough is just a word, and it’s all relative.
Because in the few moments I spent wondering the questions:
How do I get an increase in revenue to pay for new ads to direct toward those new places?
How do I focus on these works in progress so I can get them in the new places?
And Where’s the Beef?
I got an invite to Ingram to publish with them which opens up over thirty new markets.
And an email from a guy selling some acre’s north of where I am, but outside of Pine Bluff, for something I did four months ago.
And an article about Cairo, IL, a town of 15k that dropped to 1500, but has houses, buildings, infrastructure (and a flooding problem)
That would fit right in with that Delta Project I’ve talked to you about before.
Opportunities.
Not plans, nothing concrete except the chance to get more done.
But once done, a chance to keep growing, keep finding…
Keep looking…
For more chances.
Because like red cars and brown things in the room,
Chances are everywhere you look.
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