“All day long, you are selectively paying attention to something, and much more often than you may suspect, you can take charge of this process to good effect. Indeed, your ability to focus on this and suppress that is the key to controlling your experience and, ultimately, your well-being.” ― Winifred Gallagher, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life

Busyness is the malady of our time.

Our days are consumed by chores, tasks, running around, rushing from one thing to the next. Obligations, commitments, “making a living over a life” consume the bulk of our time. There’s an emptiness in transaction-based busy work. If we are fortunate, we get weary enough to demand change and take action to fill the void.

Rather than chasing life, we can let life capture us in the simple things and activities that we consciously choose to do daily. Wrapped in wonder and delight, we must slow down to witness our life while we are in it, to see all that is available to us right now. By defining and returning regularly to the “thesis” of our life, our activities and attention shift to purpose- driven living.