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Which way do your eyes face?

Go on, it’s not a trick.

Forward, yeah?

Do you know why that is?

They’ve evolved like that over the years so we can see what’s directly in front of us.

Our prey.

The thing we’re about to kill and eat.

And, particularly for us primates, to be able to focus on what our hands are doing.

We don’t have the olde side eye that some animals do.

You know – chickens, cows, horses, zebras, turtles, elephants, many birds and fish and so on.

Because they are prey.

Their vision enables them to see others coming to try and eat them.

“My eyes are in front? I like to hunt. Eyes on the side? I like to hide.”

But we’ve forgotten this a bit, haven’t we?

Modern humans don’t need to hunt in the traditional way.

Tesco Click N Collect (other ways of getting food are available) has put paid to that.

But we’re still the same creature.

We still function in the same way.

Have nothing in front of us to concentrate on and we struggle.

We starting looking around.

To the side.

Checking what everyone else is up to on social media and feeling flat from it.

Looking backwards.

Allowing past situations to replay in our head.

Lamenting stuff that we can never change.

Or into the more distant future.

Worrying about what is to come.

What might or might not happen.

Creating “uncertainty”.

“Anxiety”.

When our mind doesn’t have something right in front of us to focus on it wanders off to all sorts of other places.

Places that don’t usually benefit us.

When we don’t fill our lives with challenges that inspire us and that tie into what we value…………

Our lives get filled with other people’s challenges.

Those around us.

The media.

When we wake with a sense of purpose for what is in front of us that we want to attack, then life feels good.

When we wake with a “to do list” that we don’t really want to do and feel we have to, it doesn’t.

When we wake with nothing to do, even worse.

Fill your life with challenges that inspire you.

And / or find a way to tie things that “just need to be done” into the things you do value.

Focus on that ‘prey’ just in front of you.

And everything else going on around us fades into the background.

Much love,

Jon ‘All I do each night is…..’ Hall


Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.