What You Look For Is What You Find

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What’s shakin’? Hey, I’m Rick Jordan, and today we’re going all in. Today, we’re going to talk about intention and what you look for in life, what you look for in really anything. And this is something you’re going to want to share out with three people too, because I think it’ll help you in a lot of ways, and everybody else that you share this with, everybody that you interact with. And I know that it will, because I know that this is information and just thoughts and just encouragement that people need to hear. All right, because I’m going to give you some hardcore steps today on how to look for the best things in your life. You with me? Yeah, I know you are. Have you ever seen an individual like and you’re like, man, have you heard the phrases like “They’re always looking for trouble,” right? But that’s such a it’s a phrase that’s been used for people that you know might just like to stir the waters a bit. You might like to rock the apple cart. These are other fun phrases that I’m bringing up right now. 

I don’t know where they’re coming from, to be honest with you, just coming out of my crack today, because these phrases just pop up and it shows that I’ve heard a lot of things in my life, too, like from generations beyond me, which are pretty cool now these individuals that are like, always looking for trouble, we could always plug in a different word for that word trouble, right? Because I’m sure you think it’s like, oh, it will. That person always seems to have a bad relationship, or they’re always with a bad guy, or they’re always with just a horrible woman. Every time they find someone, they just can’t find the right guy. Well, maybe they’re looking for a tumultuous relationship, you know. So that person isn’t always looking for trouble. They’re looking for a bad relationship, or they’re this person, man, they can’t hold a job, right? They’re always looking to get fired.

 You know, these are thought patterns. As you see, actions play out when you observe an individual, anybody who just seems to be repeating the same exact scenario every single week, every single month, every single year, and you’re like, “Man, when are they going to break this pattern?” Especially if it’s somebody that you care about, right? Or this could be you if you just think, “Man, I can’t find the right job. I can’t hold a job.” Or I wish there were some good guys out there. I’ve heard that one before, right, man? Or I wish there was just a woman that I could find who was so caring. Why are all the women horrible? I’ve heard that before, too, and it’s like, because you start thinking these thoughts, you actually train your brain in a negative way to go looking for these things. Now, this could be based on a trauma. It could be based on just a bad experience that you had one time, and that formulated what you think all the experiences in that situation are going to be from that point on, or you might have experienced it a couple of times. 

Maybe you just had some bad luck, and you had something happen to you more than once. Now you’re thinking that’s the same thing over and over and over again, right? Well, today, we’re going to start to give you some exceptions on how to break free of this, because I’m going to tell you that most of the time, that is not the way that it is. You’ve just created this story, and you’re playing this movie in your mind; it’s like, “Oh, I’ve seen the ending already. This is just a sequel. Oh, hey, you know what? Here’s a trilogy gonna get fired from this job, or this dude’s gonna leave me, or she’s gonna just be horribly mean to me, that’s just how it is. That’s not how it is. Did you hear me? That’s not how it is; that’s how you think it is, and what you look for is what you find. Let’s try to break this, because I don’t know if you do this, but this is something that I do. It’s not consistently, but it’s, I’m generally a positive person.

 Anyway, because this took a while for me to get here. I did this years ago to where it was, every single night, I would write down something that I was thankful for, you know, now they call them like exp, you know, practicing gratitude, right? That’s the nice, cool catch phrase right back that, you know, five, six years, I was just like, “I’m just gonna write things down I’m thankful for. That’s it. And I would write them in a journal. I would take notes in my phone, whatever works, and begin to just write down the things that I’m thankful for. And you know what this did for me? Because this actually brought me out of a bad point in my life where I almost died. I’ve talked about my health issue before, you know, when it was years ago, when I almost died, but maybe not so much about my mindset, on how I got out of this, right? Because I was in a bad state, very anxious, very, very depressed, you know, because very wide, I mean, to the point where I would have, like, these brains at. 

Because of these thoughts, for eight months straight, that man—this is it. I’m gonna die. Nobody can figure out what’s wrong with me. And you know what? I almost made it happen, too. I know that, right? But then I was brought through that life was saved by an amazing surgeon, and then after that, I started figuring out, all right, well, cool, that broke the pattern. For me, actually almost dying broke the pattern of these thoughts. I don’t want you to go through the same thing, because it sucked. It really sucks. So what I want for you is to give you ways to start pulling yourself up out of this hole you’ve dug for yourself mentally to where you’re always going to look for bad things because of some experiences you’ve had, or maybe some experience that other people have told you that you had. This one sucks when people tell you things based on their own traumas and are like, “This is the way it is in life.” Well, maybe that’s the way it was for them, but you’re not them. It can be totally different from you. Maybe, just maybe, you have a different purpose in life than that individual. 

Or maybe, just maybe, you actually could experience some good things. I know that you can. I’ll show you how today, when I started being thankful for these things, you know, I would meditate, right? And meditation for me actually comes when I work out. I never really put intention into working out before, but I found that that was a time when I could actually quiet my brain, and I couldn’t even do 10 push-ups coming out of this bad health thing that I had. But what it did was create a space for me. It created this block in my day where I had nothing to do but get my body right, coming out of this bad illness that I had, and also just process my thoughts. So it’s like, what do I want to think about? That’s what I started thinking to myself, right? Because what you look for is what you find. So I’m like, What do I want to look for? What did I do with this? And this is the key, and this is how you’re going to break through whatever it is that you think is stupid in your life that’s always going to be the same stupidness every single day, every single month, every single year. 

It might not be stupid if you look for things that aren’t stupid. Did you hear that your life might not be stupid? If you look for things to fill your life that are not stupid. This is how you do it, just like this. You know, I focused on just thinking one thing. That’s it, just one thing. That’s the easiest place to start. One thing is some kind of outcome, like the end result. For me, it was like, I want to be fit. I don’t ever want to go through that again. I want to be fit. I want to build enough muscle mass in my body so that I feel good and I look good. That was the outcome for me. And I actually visualized myself. And no joke, I just took this photo like three days ago in a gym in a hotel that I was traveling in, because I’m looking at myself in the mirror, and I don’t know where I found this shirt. 

It was a shirt that was buried. It was an Under Armour shirt. It was a size medium. I wear large for everything else, right? But this was a fitted medium shirt. And oh my god, did it accentuate all the good things about my shape? I was looking in the mirror. I’m like, holy moly. And then I recalled this vision that I had. It’s like, this is the outcome. This is what I want. It was the one single thought that continued to fuel these things, right, and then I kept thinking about it deeper and deeper and deeper, about what it would look like when I started this entire journey that created intention. If you’re starting a business right now, if you’re looking to maybe bring a new service to market or increase revenue, think of that outcome, just one thing right now. Just think of that one thing and then keep thinking about it. But first, you have to create this space for me. It’s working out. That’s what created the space for me. 

You have to create this space to continually train your brain, because your thoughts will help you see what you want to see in your life. It trains your brain to then almost kind of like trick it, in a way, to start to influence your actions. And that’s how these things happen. That’s the intention. So think about the thoughts one time and the outcome, and then keep thinking about them in that space that you created for yourself. Think about them over and over and over again. For me, if it’s four to five times a week working out, I’ll keep thinking about that while I’m working out over and over and over again, about what it actually looks like. Now you’re training your brain. We’re. It is, and that’s going to influence your actions and everyone. That’s called intention. Now you know that what you look for is what you’re going to find. So whatever you want to look for, start thinking about that right now, that outcome and go all in.