Awesome post, @axios. As if you wrote this blog for me today! And what your experienced has happened to me either unintentionally or otherwise. 

You are absolutely correct about focusing on something will make us see "search results" we are looking for.

I am into photography at present and I am at the learning phase. @juliank and @photocontests enumerated categories we can focus on a daily basis and take photos based on those categories.

I would focus, for example, on colourful categories and find myself seeing colourful things. I would notice things I never cared for before.

I definitely agree with you that it's entirely up to us how we live our life by simply focusing on the things that matter or important to us. Anything else becomes noise until our focused is shifted to something else.

Thank you for sharing and I learned a lot from you today. Upvoted and followed. I'd like to read more of your posts in the future. Checking also some of your previous posts coz they sound interesting.

Have a great day!