I love this. Danica Patrick tells a life lesson she learned from her father. When she was young racing go karts, her father told her “You look where your eyes go.” She spoke about the ability to turn around and look over your shoulder. Her father counseled her not to do this because you go where your eyes go.
Danica then expounds on how this metephor works across all areas of life.
Wherever you set your mental reference, your mental attention, your focus, that is where you are going. How are you going to have a positive life from negative thoughts? You can’t, you just perpetuate more negative thoughts.
The same is true with God. If you look to God, you will head towards God. If you look to the Devil, you will head toward the Devil. If you look toward anything bad, you will head towards it. If you look toward anything good, you will head toward it.
Her life is racing. In racing, heading toward a wall is disastrous. My life is living for God. It makes me think of the 13th Article of Faith. “We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.”
All of the things stated in the 13th Article of Faith are forward thinking; we believe, we hope, we endure, and we seek. Keep your eyes on the road ahead. Stay the course. Keep your eyes on the goal with is the Kingdom of Heaven.
On the flip side of the coin it makes me think of Lot’s wife. She turned and looked toward Sodom. Becuase she looked when she was told not to, she was turned to a pillar of salt. It makes me think of the horrible things that are around us today. Sodom and Gomorrah are all around us. If you look where your eyes go, you will surely travel in that direction. Metaphoricly, I think many look to Sodom and Gomorrah today and as such will find themselves in a desastrous situation at some point in life. It all starts with looking.
17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/gen/19?lang=eng