It is important to remember that you actually end up with more of what you focus on.

If you want prosperity, wealth, success then focus on it.

What tends to happen when people strive to achieve things, they notice their shortcomings and lack. Focusing on lack will increase the number and strength of the messages that support these beliefs. This lack will then be able to increase its foot hold and could eventually be used to explain the failure.

If the lack or shortcomings are ignored and the successes, no matter how small, these successes will become more frequent and stronger.

A while back, I was working as a successful consultant and at that time I travelled up and down the country with a colleague. Phil was a discerning fellow and each time we ate at a restaurant, he always managed to find something that was wrong. It could have been that the starter was too big, or the starter was too small. The wine was too warm or it was too cold. Never was there a time that the restaurant could get it all right for Phil.

I found that this spilled over into other parts of my life. I too found things wrong in just about everything, incliuding eating out, even when I wasn't with Phil.

One day I was on the phone to BT complaining about something to do with my telephone service and my boss popped his head over the office divider. "Are you ok Ric?" he said. At that moment, I stopped and noticed that I probably wasn't. We had a chat and he told me that he had noticed that I wasn't "being myself" anymore. That day, I decided to look for the good things in everything from then on.

Look for the good things and the really great things will come to you.