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As some wise man said, don’t just move, move forward<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0 The things that are craving for our attention is like a bottomless pit. Social media, emails, OTT, meetings, monitoring stock markets, entertaining and all of that. All of this means the direction, energy and time of our attention is all outward, external.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And because life is not a spectator sport to remain on the sidelines and react<\/em><\/span> to what others are doing, accomplishing- it is for you to make your own moves<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Busy is not a benchmark to get carried away by<\/em><\/span>. Though our zeitgeist will not encourage anything else. Busy people are just ticking off the tasks’ boxes one by one. The idea is to move the needle and focus your attention on what you can do to add value, create impact<\/em><\/span>. Treating time and attention like an investment\u00a0 wherein the impact and value you create is the biggest return you can expect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The toss up is between spending your time or investing your time<\/em><\/span>!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Imagine the amount of energy that you can have back at your disposal when attention is inward, on what you are supposed to do rather than expend it un gainfully externally, bothered about reacting to what others are doing. Please don’t be so generous with your attention and do not give it away freely. It is said that\u00a0attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity<\/em><\/span>. So before you start your charitable work of distributing it outward, reconsider, introspect and use it for your next Guernica(Picasso)<\/a>. Or whatever lights up your day. Because diluted attention<\/em><\/span> means you are actually dimming your inner fire, the spark.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The temptation in wanting a piece of ‘ what’s happening there<\/em><\/span> ‘ is high. When you begin to internalise your attention, you get back the fuel that you have been scattering away aimlessly. Good work<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0great art<\/em>\u00a0comes from\u00a0deep focus<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0deep work<\/em>. Our<\/em>\u00a0ability to be prolific, create art that resonates, that strikes a chord , tug at the heartstrings and hit people in the face with a crowbar<\/em>\u00a0depends on<\/em>\u00a0our ability to focus<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n This is not a rant about shutting the world out. Not in the least. But a rallying cry for being more you, more grounded, more curious about your own experience first<\/em><\/span>. This is the shift<\/em><\/span> that will disengage you from the ‘ autopilot<\/em> <\/span>‘ mode and when you take charge, rather than being dictated by the external world. That is when you begin to lead the life that you have not been living, create the things that you so badly wanted to.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Consider for a moment the kind of\u00a0mental world<\/em><\/span>\u00a0we can construct when we\u00a0dedicate<\/em>\u00a0significant time and attention<\/em><\/span> to our deep endeavors<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your world is the outcome of what you pay attention to<\/em>.<\/span> Period.\u00a0Attention is the currency of your achievement.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The world will still be there when you look up from doing what lights your fire. Till then, it can wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The poet\u00a0J.D. McCatchy\u00a0captured this essential fact beautifully in his observation that\u00a0\u201clove is the quality of attention we pay to things.\u201d. As some wise man said, don’t just move, move forward.\u00a0 The things that are craving for our attention is like a bottomless pit. 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