{"id":11757,"date":"2018-05-30T09:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merig.com\/?p=11757"},"modified":"2019-10-09T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T19:06:23","slug":"wheres-your-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/2018\/05\/30\/wheres-your-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s your focus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Switching up the order of MG core value number 5: Be positive, be gracious, be kind. Don&#8217;t ask me to pick which behavior is most important&#8230;can&#8217;t do it! But this article (<a href=\"https:\/\/leadershipfreak.blog\/2018\/04\/03\/choose-your-focus-because-your-eyes-control-your-tongue\/\">Choose your focus because your eyes control your tongue<\/a>) zeros in on being positive. What does that really mean? Here are some points to consider&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s not enough to accentuate the positive. You have to eliminate the negative.<\/em><br \/>\nWalk around looking for mistakes and all you talk about is mistakes.<br \/>\nRepeated complaining hard-wires the brain to do more complaining. The more negative you are, the more negative you become.<\/p>\n<p>Steps to help?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Focus on solutions when problems emerge.<\/li>\n<li><em>Focus on strengths. High performance comes from leveraging strengths not fixing (all) weaknesses.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Focus on the future. Remember the future is built today.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Focus on gratitude.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Focus on progress. Energy increases with forward movement, as long as you don&#8217;t complain that it\u2019s not enough!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switching up the order of MG core value number 5: Be positive, be gracious, be kind. Don&#8217;t ask me to pick which behavior is most important&#8230;can&#8217;t do it! But this article (Choose your focus because your eyes control your tongue) zeros in on being positive. What does that really mean? Here are some points to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15267,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions\/15267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/foxcroft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}