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" 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊, 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐑 " Why a Racing Driver Never Looks at the Wall — And Why You Shouldn't Either. 👉 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐮𝐥𝐞: 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥: In high-speed racing, drivers are trained 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 on the track — even when they’re dangerously close. 𝐖𝐡𝐲? Because where your eyes go, your hands (and steering) follow. If a driver 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥, their mind instinctively calculates its position, and their hands start guiding the car in that direction — even if they don’t want to hit it.The result? They 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫. 👉 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐭: This racing principle isn’t just about driving — it reflects how the 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. ===>Your 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. ===>Your 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐦. ===>You 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 what you continually 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞. This is why elite performers, from athletes to entrepreneurs, learn to 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. 👉 “𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐎𝐧, 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬” There’s a timeless truth: “𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭, 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬.” ==>If you keep staring at your 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬, you magnify them. ==>If you obsess over your 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, you empower them. ==>If you constantly revisit 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬, you re-live them. But… ==>If you look at your 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐬, they grow. ==>If you focus on 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞, your joy multiplies. ==>If you keep your eyes on 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞, instead of what you lack — you feel abundant, not broken. 👉 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐚𝐳𝐞 — 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 Just like the racing driver avoids the wall by 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝, we too can 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 by choosing where we place our attention. ==>Don’t fix your gaze on what's going wrong. ==>Look where you want to go. ==>Focus on what you want to build, not what you want to avoid. "𝑭𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 — 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 — 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆, 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆." #theknowledgescroll #wisdom #knowledgeispower #goodtoknow

Back in my little village in East Germany, behind the Iron curtain, when church attendance was sparse and life for any believer was one of constant repression, it was the courage of the philosopher-theologian Bonhoeffer and his hymn, written at the turn of the year, which gave me hope. His New Year hymn was always part of our end of year church service, when the little flock met in our house church on New Year’s Eve to receive the last blessing of the old year. At midnight my family went outside to ring the big bells in the bell tower on the cemetery lawn, It was realy just a short shed that looked like a steeple and sat on the ground near where the church once stood before the Second World war destroyed it. Oh, how I miss those bells. We older siblings took turns pulling the ropes of the two heavy bells, to ring the village from the old into the new year. The villagers always waited until the bells turned silent to begin their fireworks - the official way Germans welcome the New Year. Von guten Mächten wunderbar geborgen (translated as “By gracious powers wonderfully sheltered” or “By gentle powers lovingly surrounded”) is a much-loved hymn that is widely sung in German-speaking lands at the turn of the year, and it has guided us into the New Year also here also during our New Years’ retreats and 12 Days of Christmas Contemplations since. The protestant theologian, church leader, and resistance member Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote these inspiring and melancholic words as a prayer toward the end of his 2-year imprisonment by the Nazis. He sent it to his family as an encouragement and profession of faith in December of 1944, just eight weeks before he was executed (and four months before Nazi Germany’s capitulation) at a time when much of Germany had been turned to rubble by the allied powers. Bonhoeffer’s life, witness, and death gives the song special resonance at the turn of the year. Especially in a year such as this. In another year filled with worry and war, where people are burdened and frightened by their personal and political situation, when whole families are buried under rubble and children are orphaned every single day somewhere in this world, in a year that we leave behind with grief and gratitude, I cannot think of a more comforting text. It acknowledges the pain and offers comfort and courage. It allows us to both hold our sorrows and cradle hope: “Surrounded by such true and gentle powers. So wondrously consoled and without fear, Thus will I spend with you these final hours And then together enter a new year. The worries of the old year still torment us. We’re troubled still by long and wicked days. Oh Lord, give our frightened souls the healing For which You’ve chastened us in many ways.” — D. Bonhoeffer https://almutfurchert.substack.com/p/by-gracious-powers-wonderfully-sheltered-01d