By Jeff Cooper
There’s a simple truth about life:
✔ Whatever you feed will grow.
✔ Whatever you focus on will shape your reality.
✔ Whatever you allow to dominate your thoughts will define your world.
If we don’t actively focus on the good, the bad will take over—because negativity doesn’t need permission to spread.
History has already proven this.
Every great society that fell?
It didn’t collapse because of an enemy.
It collapsed because its own people stopped focusing on what held them together—and allowed division, fear, and corruption to take over.
This is the choice we face today.
The Natural Pull Toward Negativity
It’s easy to be negative.
✔ It’s easy to focus on what’s wrong with the world.
✔ It’s easy to be consumed by bad news, corruption, and division.
✔ It’s easy to complain about how things are broken.
Why? Because negativity spreads faster than positivity.
✔ The media profits from outrage.
✔ Politicians use fear to control people.
✔ Social media algorithms push conflict, drama, and sensationalism because it keeps people engaged.
But what happens when we only focus on the bad?
We create more of it.
History Shows Us What Happens When Societies Focus on the Wrong Things
1. The Fall of Rome – Division & Corruption
✔ Rome wasn’t destroyed in a single day.
✔ Its people stopped focusing on unity and purpose and became obsessed with greed, power, and self-interest.
✔ They allowed their leaders to become corrupt and divided—until the empire collapsed under its own weight.
Sound familiar?
The same forces are at play in America today.
2. The Rise of Dictatorships – Fear Over Progress
✔ Every dictatorship in history began by feeding the worst emotions of the people.
✔ Leaders rose to power by making people focus on hatred, fear, and division instead of solutions.
✔ They convinced people that others were the enemy, turning neighbors against each other.
And every time, it led to destruction, war, and suffering.
3. The Civil Rights Movement – Choosing Hope Over Hate
✔ The 1960s were full of violence, oppression, and injustice.
✔ But leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t focus on revenge or destruction.
✔ They focused on justice, unity, and a future worth fighting for.
Because they understood: You cannot fight darkness with more darkness—you must bring light.
So What Happens If We Keep Feeding Negativity?
✔ If we only focus on division, we will become divided.
✔ If we only focus on what’s wrong, we will create more wrong.
✔ If we only focus on who to blame, we will never fix the real problems.
We have to make a choice:
✔ Do we want to focus on problems or solutions?
✔ Do we want to live in fear or build a future of hope?
✔ Do we want to tear each other apart or come together to create something better?
Because if we don’t focus on the good, we will lose everything that makes life worth living.
How Do We Start Focusing on the Good?
1️⃣ Challenge negativity. When you hear fear-based rhetoric, ask: Who benefits from this?
2️⃣ Support solutions. Instead of just pointing out what’s wrong, look for ways to fix it.
3️⃣ Lift people up. A single act of kindness, a single moment of unity, can shift an entire movement.
4️⃣ Stop letting fear control you. Politicians, the media, and corporations profit from keeping us angry and afraid. Don’t give them that power.
Focusing on the good is not about ignoring the bad.
It’s about choosing what kind of world we want to build.
Final Thought: What Future Do We Want?
If we only focus on destruction, we will destroy.
If we only focus on division, we will divide.
If we only focus on fear, we will live in fear.
But if we focus on truth, justice, unity, and solutions—we will create a world worth living in.
It’s up to us.
What do we want to focus on?
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