Focus on what you want - a case study (sort of)

The master premise of using the power within is to focus on what you want.  I've said many times that your mind doesn't know what you're feeding it.  Good or bad thoughts, it absorbs them.  It's true.  I'm trying very hard (and believe me, it's tough), to focus on what I want right now. 

It's difficult because it's the beginning of the month, John just got his paycheck, and two of the major bills we have to pay will take all of it.  So I'm stuck with a pile of bills with no way to pay them.  So I've been focusing on the lack of money which, of course, will bring me a lack of money.  My mind has been trained for so long one way that it's a struggle to look at another.  I've put a rubber band on my wrist and flip it each time I start thinking negatively.  And the rest of the time I'm thinking, and saying "Thank you for paying my bills" over and over.

That's not the case study.  THIS is the case study.

I have some friends who are wonderful people.  They're loving, caring, and frightened (I'm pretty sure that's the right word).  They've lived a bounteous lifestyle and then they became victims of a Ponzi scheme and lost it all.  Because of the husband's talents and skills, and a help from his father, they've managed to invent something that brought them back to the brink of where they were.  And they went into a business that was supposed to be profitable for them.  Side note:  they're very much afraid to trust anyone now, no matter how sincere they are.

From the beginning small problems kept cropping up, and, despite intervention on several levels, the problems became bigger and bigger to the point that now their investment is sitting, doing nothing, and they're really frustrated.

They're living what they are thinking about all of the time.

Every time we talk there's a litany of the myriad of problems that are constantly expanding and multiplying.  I feel helpless because I can't fix it for them, but neither can they because "they're living what they think about most of the time."  Prayer hasn't seemed to help, hoping hasn't seemed to help, a smiling countenance hasn't helped, because these things aren't a constant focus.  Their focus, like my rubber band, keeps coming back--like a virus.

I want this to work so well for us that I can prove it to others.  Positive proof that things can change.  But it remains to be seen whether they will believe or not.