Opportunity Blindness

Once upon a time, my dream car used to be a Honda CRV. The car was just so appealing to me for reasons I can’t remember right now.

I was so obsessed with this car that I would go online and look at pictures and videos of the latest models, and my obsession would multiply. I imagined myself driving it and just cruising about in it. It almost felt real!

Can you guess what started to happen to me?

I began to see Honda CRVs everywhere I went, and each time I saw the car, my brain lit up with excitement.

Now, can you relate to this experience, and did you know that there is a special brain organ responsible for this "magic"?

It is called the Reticular Cortex and here´s how it works:

This brain organ receives information on what is important to you based on the things you have been thinking predominantly about, whether positive or negative.

As soon as it gets this information, it springs into action and starts to bring to your conscious mind the twin sibling of your predominant thoughts.

So, in my case, as I obsessed over the Honda CRV car, my reticular cortex got the memo that it was important to me at the time, and it began to bring to my consciousness the plethora of CRVs in my environment that I was once blind to.

This insight has led me to ask these important questions:

♦️ What opportunities in my environment am I currently blind to?

♦️ How can I heal my opportunity blindness?

2025 is filled with numerous opportunities for you to flourish, and live purposeful and authentically. However, if all we can think about are the limitations in our environment, we will never be able to see these opportunities, talk more of taking advantage of them.

Never forget this: your brain is simply a messenger. It cannot differentiate between good thoughts and bad thoughts, no matter how well-meaning they may be. If you feed it garbage, it will process garbage.

I urge you to make it a priority this year to fill your mind with things that are true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious - the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.

There are already so many prophecies of doom for 2025, and many of them will happen! However, amid the chaos, you can create and experience your own peace by guarding your heart and what you think and meditate on.

Do you remember Covid? Amid the devastation, many lived their best lives, and some rose to be millionaires.

You can and will live your best, most authentic life in 2025, just make sure your thoughts align!

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