Richmond Dinh argues that where you allocate your attention strongly shapes your financial success and personal fulfillment. Using an investing analogy, he lists three worst places to focus—on the past, on what you don't have, and on what you can't control—and advises consistently directing focus toward the present/future, controllable factors, and what you do have.
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Where you allocate your spare money has a big impact on how financially successful you'll be. And should it be in shares or Bitcoin or property or something else? Well, that doesn't really matter. The thing that matters most is that whatever you invest your money in is that you become the expert in that field. Now why am I sharing this? Because the biggest waste of time that you can ever do is where you allocate your focus. And so like money, where you allocate your money has a big impact on where you end up financially. But where you allocate your day to day focus has a big impact on how happy you feel and how fulfilled you feel, and more importantly, on where you end up in life. And here are the three worst places to allocate your focus and what you should be doing instead. Number one, if you allocate your focus to the past, you are going to be miserable because you cannot change the past. Number two, if you allocate your focus to what you don't have, you'll also be miserable because you can't change what you don't have and that just makes you feel worse. And number three, if you allocate your focus to what you can't control, like other people's thoughts or the weather or whatever the case may be, you'll be very miserable because that is going to make you feel powerless. What you need to do consistently in practice is allocate your focus on the present or the future, allocate your focus on what you can control, and most importantly, allocate your focus on what you do have versus what you don't have.