It’s quite something to get the whole world to focus on one thing.
It’s really something to get one person to focus on one thing.
Tag Archives: attention
Using Fear To Leverage Your Attention For What’s Important
Our awareness then, as a scanning mechanism of our environment, is greatly affected if we are looking for where God is showing up in the midst of our present moment.
Minimize Input To Maximize Output
Clearly we need to have inputs in order to have outputs. But minimizing low quality and high frequency inputs fosters the necessary space to create, and create well.
Value Defining; Or A Tool To Say No
The art of saying no is tied to knowing one’s own values and sticking to them.
When You Need To Fail: Getting An F In Distraction
There are things in life we believe we must be flawless with when in reality we need to simply do our best with them for the season we are in. Our best may even be to fail at them temporarily.
Recapture
Given enough lag in keeping up, I sensed this blog might eventually turn into a journal of sorts. It’s what happens when I lose focus (ie, the overarching theme of this site!). But this post could serve as a bookmark of sorts. A moment captured to look back at as a pivot point. Because the …
The Needed Extreme: No News At All
There was a moment of time recently where there was nothing to do for 5 minutes. Of course I reached for my phone. But this time, it was to read one of the good blogs I use to read from but had abandoned for social media scrolling. The corrective behavior paid off immediately. When I …
Pandemic Connection
It’s seemingly counter-productive to begin the process of retreating away from social media connectivity during a global pandemic. 100 years ago this wasn’t even a choice during the Spanish Flu, so there isn’t much to go off in terms of examples. I can’t find someone’s notes back then on how they avoided TikTok so they …
Diminshed Time
On a personal note, I find myself hounding the topic of digital retreating due to the incredible amount of wasted time I see in my rearview mirror. At first it can seem justified. The amount of blogs I have read (which as long as they are good credible ones). The amount of chats I have …
Attention Leads To Awareness
I’ve never become more aware of the strawman ‘evil rich person’ I painted in my mind than I have in recent years. Having grown up with an easy to accept construct fed from family and cable news, telling me rich people are not to be trusted, how evil they are, how elitist they act, I …
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