Breaking the Backward Pull

The Energy Equation That Changes Everything

There's a fundamental truth about energy that most people never grasp: wherever you place your attention becomes your reality. Not eventually. Not someday. Right now.

When you keep your mind locked on problems, you expand them. When you keep your thoughts on what's missing, you create more lack. But the moment you shift forward, toward what you want, your energy compounds in that direction.

This isn't positive thinking. This is energy physics.

The Problem Expansion Trap

We've been conditioned to believe that analyzing problems leads to solutions. That dwelling on what's wrong somehow fixes what's broken. That replaying past mistakes prevents future ones.

But here's what actually happens: problems expand under sustained attention. Like feeding a fire, the more mental energy you pour into what's wrong, the bigger and more consuming it becomes.

Think about it. Have you ever noticed how a small worry can grow into overwhelming anxiety when you keep thinking about it? How a minor relationship issue becomes a major crisis when you replay it endlessly? How a financial setback feels insurmountable when it dominates your thoughts?

That's not coincidence. That's the law of expansion in action.

The Momentum Multiplication Effect

Momentum doesn't come from obsessing about what went wrong. It comes from fueling what's possible.

Every step you take with forward focus stacks on the last one. And before you know it, you're moving faster, lighter, stronger, because energy multiplies where you place your attention.

Think of momentum like compound interest. A small deposit of forward-focused energy creates a return. That return, when you maintain forward focus, creates an even larger return. Soon, what started as conscious effort becomes natural flow.

This is why some women seem to effortlessly create extraordinary lives after 50 while others remain stuck in familiar patterns. It's not luck or circumstances. It's understanding where to place their precious mental energy.

The Science of Forward Focus

Your brain is designed to find evidence for whatever you're looking for. Psychologists call this the Reticular Activating System (RAS), your mental filter that notices what aligns with your dominant thoughts.

When you focus on problems, your RAS finds more problems. When you focus on lack, it finds more evidence of what's missing. But when you focus forward, on what you want to create, your RAS starts identifying opportunities, resources, and pathways you couldn't see before.

This isn't wishful thinking. This is how consciousness shapes experience.

The Energy Investment Strategy

Your attention is your most valuable currency. Unlike time or money, once you spend mental energy on something, that's energy unavailable for everything else.

Successful women after 50 understand this. They've learned to be ruthless guardians of their mental energy, investing it only in directions that multiply momentum rather than drain vitality.

This doesn't mean ignoring genuine problems or avoiding necessary challenges. It means addressing what needs addressing quickly and efficiently, then immediately returning your focus to forward momentum.

Breaking the Backward Pull

The past has a gravitational pull. Old patterns, familiar problems, and well-worn worry paths feel comfortable even when they're destructive. Your brain prefers the known misery to unknown possibility.

But momentum multiplies in the direction you consistently point your energy. And every moment you choose forward focus over backward dwelling, you strengthen your capacity for sustained momentum.

This choice becomes easier with practice. What starts as conscious effort evolves into natural tendency. What begins as mental discipline transforms into energetic flow.

The Compound Effect of Consistent Direction

Small, consistent choices in the direction of your desires create exponential results over time. Not because each choice is monumentally important, but because consistent direction allows momentum to build rather than dissipate.

Think of it like rowing a boat. You can row hard in random directions and exhaust yourself while going nowhere. Or you can row steadily in one direction and let momentum carry you forward with increasing ease.

Forward focus is the steady rowing that creates effortless progress.

Creating Your Momentum Multipliers

Identify what naturally pulls your attention forward rather than backward. These become your momentum multipliers, thoughts, activities, and focuses that automatically generate forward energy.

For some women, it's creative projects that excite them. For others, it's relationships that energize them. For many, it's the vision of who they're becoming rather than analysis of who they've been.

Your momentum multipliers are unique to you, but they share one quality: they make you feel expanded rather than contracted, possible rather than limited, energized rather than drained.

The Daily Practice of Direction

Forward focus isn't a one-time decision. It's a daily practice of consciously directing your most precious resource, your attention, toward what multiplies rather than what diminishes.

Each morning, you have the opportunity to set your energetic direction for the day. Each moment throughout the day, you can choose whether to feed problems or fuel possibilities.

This conscious direction becomes the foundation for everything else you want to create. Because before you can change your circumstances, you must first change where you place your energy.

And when you consistently place your energy on forward movement, momentum doesn't just happen—it multiplies.

The Unstoppable Woman

The woman who understands that focus forward creates momentum multiplication becomes unstoppable. Not because she doesn't encounter problems, but because she refuses to let problems consume the energy needed for solutions.

She knows that dwelling on what went wrong never creates what could go right. She understands that her attention is the fuel for her future, and she guards it accordingly.

Most importantly, she recognizes that momentum multiplication isn't about perfection, it's about direction. And every time she chooses to focus forward rather than backward, she strengthens the momentum that carries her toward everything she desires.

Stop wasting your fuel on the past. Focus forward. Momentum multiplies.

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About the Author

Dr. Diva Verdun, the Fierce Factor Expert and Architect of Ageless Power™, is the founder of FENOM University and the Age with Power™ movement, where she empowers ambitious women to crush it after 50 and rewrite the rules of aging. Through her signature Core 4 Principles of F.I.R.E.™ — Purpose, Passion, Prosperity, and Power — she guides women to ignite their inner brilliance, embody their authentic power, and expand into a life of bold, liberated expression. On the campus of FENOM University, Dr. Diva leads transformational experiences, legacy brand training, and deep mindset shifts designed to help women rise into their next chapter with unstoppable fire.

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