Today’s post by Seth Godin had me light up at this paragraph:
“Simply shut down some channels of communication. Hand off entire swaths of engagement to someone else. Not next week, but now. Not for awhile, but forever.
Attention doesn’t scale, no matter how hard we try.”
While he’s specifically referring to the work environment with the endless incoming streams from numerous angles, it’s an apropos way of thinking about our own lives.
We were only built to handle so much and yet we continue to act as if we can do it all, or continue to make space for people who drain us. All for what?
Hand it off, shut it down and give your attention to where you want it to be.