There’s a print hanging in my house of rows and rows of colored dots, each one captioned with a tongue-in-cheek moniker. Were I to count, I’m betting each color is represented in equal numbers.

But sometimes, I’ll look at that print and a red dot will catch my eye. I’ll read the name, something like picnic tablecloth, or Maine lobster, or Tide detergent, and relish the wit of it. When my gaze zooms out, all I’ll see are red-hued dots. I’ll think I’ve never noticed how many red dots that print contains, and wonder if the red dots vastly outnumber any other color.

Another day, my eyes will settle on a lovely blue–dried Hydrangeas your husband doesn’t see the beauty in. Next thing, the whole print will be flush with blues. They’ll appear to pop up towards the surface of the glass, while the other colors sink back down into the paper.

What we look for we find. What we focus on, we attract.

It never fails.

When you consider the variety and vastness of the world and the lengths our minds will go to in order to prove our beliefs are true, you can trust that what you want to see will materialize. And not only will it present itself–it will begin to expand. It will stretch and multiply and replicate, so that soon you’ll see it everywhere. It’ll pop up in line at the grocery store, in traffic on the highway, and in your living room.

If you’re focusing on feeling let down by others, all you’ll attract is more feeling let down.

If you’re focusing on lack, you will create more lack in your life.

If you focus on reasons to feel good, on how things always work out for you, your life will seem to overflow with blessings.

If you don’t believe me, take a large piece of paper, draw seven rows of ten dots, all of different colors. Pin it up and glance at it from time to time, and you’ll see: what you focus on expands, while the rest, though no less present, your mind cancels out.

Look for green; see green.

Look for light; see light.

Feel fortunate; attract good fortune.

Feel hope; attract affirmations.

Feel abundant; attract abundance.