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Attention Is the Currency of a Life

You will spend roughly 700,000 hours awake. Where those hours land is who you become.

The only real budget You do not have twenty-four hours a day. You have sixteen or seventeen conscious ones. Everything you love, everything you build, every relationship you deepen — must be paid for in attention.

Three ways attention leaks 1. **Unclaimed time.** The half hour between tasks that dissolves into a feed. 2. **Divided attention.** Doing two things at once, doing neither well. 3. **Rumination.** Rehearsing conversations that already happened, or that never will.

A daily audit At night, ask three questions: - What received my best attention today? - What received attention it did not deserve? - What did I love, but never look at?

You are not trying to become efficient. You are trying to become awake to your own spending.

Where attention goes, life follows.

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः

Peace, peace, peace.