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... And so if the world is manifesting itself in a very negative way, one thing to ask is... are you aiming at the right thing.

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The act of purposefully instructing your mind to genuinely pursue a goal (take aim) does a strange thing... it literally changes your perception of the world... it reconfigures itself around that aim*. Positive or negative, it follows your aim... So, z4AQ5zVfo. Consider where you are in life, problems you can observe, how much of your situation is due to the wrong aim, or the lack of an aim? Likely a decent amount if you're being honest with yourself. True, life is hard, situations outside of our control do have a dramatic influence on your direction. But it's worth considering, out of the things you can control, are you aiming at the things you genuinely want?