There's a lot of bad things going on in the news nowadays. There are plenty of bad things going on around the world and your city. News about local weather and traffic is always important to know about. But news about murder, rape, violent crime, and such, isn't necessary to hear about if it doesn't involve you or a close loved one. The point is that if you focus your mind on negative situations you will attract more of those things into your life. Not only those things that you see or focus on but other like things. Being a Black man Myself of the middle class, I had teenage kids at one time. I want them to do well in life. I'd rather focus on them doing their schoolwork, graduating from high school, going off to college, going to a trade school, going into the military, or starting their own business. I like to focus on my kids being successful. That's what I like to think about and I encourage my kids to think about those things also.We should always focus on the things we want rather than on the things we don't want. Quit talking about riots and crime and start talking about peace.
We need to focus on having a healthy community with kids doing well in school and adults having good jobs in our communities. We should want our kids to be successful. We should want to be successful. We should put more of our attention on how to achieve and do more.
If you take a magnet which is designed to attract any kind of iron and steel and you go outside in your backyard with it and you run it through the dirt, that magnet is going to attract dirty pieces of iron and steel. That's what it will attract because it is in the dirt. But if you take that same magnet into the house and you put it in your toolbox where you have different types of tools, wrenches, screwdrivers, and you also have some nuts, bolts and screws in there, you're going to attract cleaner pieces of steel because your magnet is inside of a toolbox where you have better pieces of metal. You have tools that can be put to good use. We are like magnets going through life. If we are placed in a bad environment or if we think of negativity or failure,you're going to attract that sort of stuff into your life. You're going to start seeing failure everywhere you go. But If you think about the good things in life that you want to receive, then you will start to attract more of those things because that's what your focus is on. What we all should do is keep our minds on the positive things that we want and off of the things that we don't want. Our minds should be constantly focused on anything positive and constructive for you and others. An example is that a parent should always focus on the positive things their child can become, rather than on the child being the knucklehead they currently may
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