<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" title="Mike Brescia - success conditioning expert" alt="Mike Brescia - success conditioning expert" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/mike-brescia.jpg" />I probably get more questions about the plain desire to be happy than anything else. Most people are miserable, generally.</p>
<p>And yes, it&#8217;s horrible, but also avoidable.</p>
<p>I know&#8230; I was one of the biggest perpetrators of stinkin&#8217; thinkin&#8217; you&#8217;ve ever met. But that simple, yet profound, shift, when it comes over you &#8211; actually when you make it your objective to change it &#8211; just puts a different shading on how you see nearly every hour of your life&#8230; <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2009/03/hocus-pocus-its-all-in-your-focus-by-mike-brescia/" title="Permanent Link: Hocus Pocus&#8230; It&#8217;s All In Your Focus" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":58,"date":"2009-03-23T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/03\/hocus-pocus-its-all-in-your-focus-by-mike-brescia\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T15:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:53:04","slug":"hocus-pocus-its-all-in-your-focus-by-mike-brescia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/03\/hocus-pocus-its-all-in-your-focus-by-mike-brescia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hocus Pocus&#8230; It&#8217;s All In Your Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Mike Brescia - success conditioning expert\" alt=\"Mike Brescia - success conditioning expert\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/mike-brescia.jpg\" \/>I probably get more questions about the plain desire to be happy than anything else. Most people are miserable, generally.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it&#8217;s horrible, but also avoidable.<\/p>\n<p>I know&#8230; I was one of the biggest perpetrators of stinkin&#8217; thinkin&#8217; you&#8217;ve ever met. But that simple, yet profound, shift, when it comes over you &#8211; actually when you make it your objective to change it &#8211; just puts a different shading on how you see nearly every hour of your life&#8230; <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/03\/hocus-pocus-its-all-in-your-focus-by-mike-brescia\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Hocus Pocus&#8230; It&#8217;s All In Your Focus\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}