Attending to my Attention

Attention is a word and concept most of us take for granted yet is what is at the center of who we are, how we affect, and are affected by the world around us. It affects and determines our attitude and how the world sees us, just as much as how we see the world.

Attention is the greatest gift we have and give to the people and things we hold most dear to our hearts. It is the way by which love is shown and seen above every other thing. Love is attention. Attention is love. It is the way people know they are seen, heard, understood, and thus loved, above all else.

Attention is limited. We only have so much of it. It is a scarce commodity. How we thus use it makes all the difference in the world. It is one of the ways we exercise our agency. What we give attention to is an exercise of our agency. No one or thing can make us attend to what we choose not to. We are thus responsible for how we CHOOSE to use our attention.

Let’s be mindful of how we use our attention. We only have so much of it and it determines our happiness or misery, richness or poverty, amongst many other things.

Together, let us finish 2026 strong, stronger than we started it.

I love and appreciate you.

The Saint.