{"id":213,"date":"2014-10-06T00:04:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sassyspirit\/?p=213"},"modified":"2014-10-06T00:04:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T00:04:57","slug":"what-has-your-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/sassyspirit\/2014\/10\/what-has-your-attention.html","title":{"rendered":"What has your attention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you wasting time on things that don&#8217;t really matter in your life? Here are some traps:<\/p>\n<p>Internet browsing is the time sucker that makes us waste a lot of time looking up dumb stuff we really don&#8217;t need to know. Maybe some\u00a0of it\u00a0do want to know, but do we really retain it or do we get bombarded with info and then get confused? Is there a focus there?\u00a0 Could you put your phone down more often and not need to figure out the answer to a random fact right that very minute?<\/p>\n<p>Being too involved in other people&#8217;s lives is pointless to our soul.\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t mean you don&#8217;t help others. With my coaching, I make other people&#8217;s lives my business when they let me in and ask for advice. But I don&#8217;t like to gossip, concern myself with how others live, judge their way versus mine, or be a know-it-all. I know a lot but then again, I&#8217;m always learning and if we&#8217;re not open to wisdom which comes from many channels and people, we do not grow.\u00a0 If we focus on others, it can be a distraction from our own stuff we need to work on.<\/p>\n<p>Combine those together and we can be measuring ourselves up to someone else&#8217;s social media world.\u00a0 In reality, there are many versions of us, no matter how you slice it.\u00a0 We are a work self, mommy\/daddy self, best foot forward self, having a bad day self, and more.\u00a0 Is one of us more real?\u00a0 Nope. they are all of us.\u00a0 Do NOT look at a picture of anyone&#8217;s life, business, or body and envy it.\u00a0 Being jealous sucks your life force and does nothing but make you feel bad.\u00a0 It can shift into needing to tear them down or think they&#8217;re phony in a way to build our energy back up.\u00a0 Think of it as a video game character who is losing power and has to collect coins to build it back up.\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;m of the old Nintendo from back in the day with Super Mario Brothers. You will only build your life force from within.\u00a0 Focus on you.\u00a0 Do the soul stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about what isn&#8217;t working, complaining, looking at your faults, past mistakes, regrets, the roadblocks?\u00a0 Have you ever heard the quote by Albert Einstein, &#8220;No problem can be solved at the same level of consciousness that created it.&#8221;\u00a0 Is anyone else as guilty of this that I am?\u00a0 I have been zapped by this with my kids.\u00a0 The three in the middle, the boys, can be insane together. Think the Three Musketeers only the Trio of Madness, Chaos, and Messes.\u00a0 Or maybe Fighting, Crying, and Laughing would be their names.\u00a0\u00a0As many watch referees on TV when the\u00a0football games are on, they could just come on over here as see\u00a0me give time-outs and try to keep my sanity. Those refs go home and I can&#8217;t escape my job.\u00a0 I am making an effort to shift this bad habit I&#8217;ve gotten back into.\u00a0 I need to schedule in &#8220;me&#8221; time for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Worrying is the last one I&#8217;ll list today, cause\u00a0they are more, but these jumped out at me today.\u00a0 With illnesses, wars, and fear-mongers, you can want to build a bunker and live in survival mode.\u00a0 Will this give you the life you\u00a0want to lead?\u00a0 No way, Jose.\u00a0 It&#8217;s impossible. You can be smart, eat healthy, pray\/meditate\/set intentions,\u00a0and then you just gotta live.\u00a0 Today is what you have.\u00a0 That is all you have.\u00a0 Make the very best of the precious gem of the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you wasting time on things that don&#8217;t really matter in your life? 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