September 17, 2024

One idea to keep it slow and simple… Shine your attention

I don’t know who first said it: “Your attention is a grow light.” I’ve Googled it and everything. In fact, Google sent me right to the Simply Sundays archives to find the phrase. So, I know that we have given this wisdom before, though it doesn’t originate from us.

Whoever the genius was, we thank them. Because we see it bear truth over and over again. That which we tend—wherever we shine our attention, it tends to grow. Whether we shine our attention on the people, places, and dreams that mean the most to us or on our worries and fears. They grow.

What gets your attention these days? We know it can’t all be the attention we most want to give. Maybe though, we might shine just a little more light here and a little less there.

What would you grow more if you could? How could you shine just a little more attention on it today?

And some clickable fun

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