Attention Retention

Key Points: 

• What gets our attention determines our direction and, ultimately, our destination. 
• Whereas emotion fuels the things that grab our attention, intentionality fuels our decision to give certain things our attention. Attention, direction, destination.

Why do people tell us to pay attention? Why pay? Pay implies price. Pay implies a cost. Pay implies giving away something of value. And it is this sense of loss that keeps us from paying attention to the things that deserve our attention and would serve us best in the future.

• Your eye-- what you see, gaze at, and pay attention to-- is the lantern of your entire life. It lights or leads your way. As your body follows a light in the dark, so your life follows what your eye focuses on.
• The problem is not the lack of understanding as much as it is a lack of application. As your attention goes, so goes your life. So pay careful attention to what you are paying attention to.