Who Gets Your Attention

It is WayMaker Wednesday. Today, take back your mind.

The Question

Who gets to shape your thoughts each day because you keep giving them your attention?

The Thought

Guard your attention. Your life is shaped by what you let speak in your mind all day.

Fear will tell you that the worst thing is coming. The past will tell you that what happened before must happen again. Other people will tell you what to want, what to hate, and what to fear. If you hear any voice long enough, it can start to sound like your own.

That is the real cost. You can spend your whole life acting on thoughts you never chose.

You may call it being informed. You may call it being ready. But if what you take in leaves you afraid, angry, or unable to act, it is not helping you face your life. It is taking you away from it.

Your mind will not stay clear on its own. You have to choose what enters, test what stays, and let go of what is not true. Then return to what is here. The call you can make. The work you can do. The person in front of you.

The past is over. The future is not here. This moment is the only place where you can choose.

Take back your attention. Take back your life.

Put It Into Action

Try the Attention Check:

• Write down the thought taking up the most space in your mind.
• Name where it came from and whether you know it is true.
• Choose one useful thing you can do right now.
• Give this moment your full attention.

Send this to someone who needs help turning down the noise.

Forge Forward,

Jon Mayo