It's all in the way we think

This is something I have been hearing about since my mid-twenties.  It's not so much the situation that we are in, it's how we interpret it that makes the difference.   The book The Secret calls it the Law of Attraction - that what we put out in the universe comes back to us.  Louise Hay talks about vibrations and energy and what we put out in the universe we get back.  I really want to buy in to all this, but at the very least, I believe that what we focus on - what I focus on - is what I pay attention to more so that's what I experience more of .. if that makes sense.

For example.  Losing weight.. still focussing on the weight.  And of course - stop drinking... still really focusing on the 'drinking'.  Instead think of being thin or living a sober, brilliant life!

I try really hard to retrain my brain but I find that since I had kids, and since the depression, I am stuck a lot in my brain.  Well that's probably not entirely true.  I think this has always been the way I am but now that I'm not rushing off to work and 'busy' all day I just have more time to think about things.  More time to realise things.  More time to see how my thoughts are shaping my world.

I know that today, when I have both kids home and no money in the bank and no glass of wine at the end of the tunnel, I start thinking 'this is going to be a long day'.  That is going to make it a long day.
The problem for me is how do I change the way I think?  Is it small steps?  A major overhaul?  It seems overwhelming.  But it's something I want to work on because I can only imagine how wonderful my life would be if my first thougths in the morning are 'how great it is to be alive!  I am ready to start this day!'