Corrina Rawlinson shows how your beliefs direct your attention and shape what you actually see. She uses a simple exercise: look for blue things in a room and you'll miss everything else. The same happens with beliefs about yourself. Shift your focus deliberately to see the full picture.
If you decide that you're a really shit person, you're going to continually look for the evidence of you being a really shit person. And because that's what you're specifically looking for, that's what you're going to find. Close your eyes. Imagine that you're sitting in a room, and I want you to tell me about all of the blue things in that room. Now, I want you to open your eyes, and I need you to tell me about the brown things that were also in that room. You saw them, right? No. No, because we're just focusing on the blue things. And so the more you begin to focus on the things that you believe is true, the less that you're able to see the things that make up the whole picture. And I find something that helps me get through the days is to just start focusing on the other things. And it's like, okay.
I'm still shit scared inside even after I wrote a book on confidence - Heidi Anderson
