Not Everything Is Worth Your Attention

What’s important to you?

There’s an art in placing your energies and efforts elsewhere.

Mark Manson calls it the “subtle art”.

Whatever pedestal you want to place “art” on, the point is to guard your time and energy.

Just look at how many people stress themselves out over things that don’t really matter.

Life is a game, don’t take it too seriously.

We are so good at worrying about things that aren’t worrisome.

No one is telling you not to worry; I’m telling you to worry about what’s important to you, but also make sure to audit the things you say are important to you and determine if they really are.

How then do we judge what’s important to us?

Well, that’s difficult to answer. Think about how funny it is for me to try and tell you what’s important to yourself.

All I can do is tell you how I judge what’s important to me.

I think, in the simplest way I could put it, in the way that is most profound and sensical to me, the things that are important to me are the things that I would regret having not given attention to if I were to, at this moment, be on my deathbed.

When I think like that, a plethora of various aspects in my life — relationships, unactualized dreams, missed opportunities and risks, the never-attempted — cloud my mind and I can’t see through it.

There’s only darkness. My biggest fear in life is that on my deathbed there will be too many clouds in my mind, symbolizing all the things that I never gave the appropriate attention to, that I will be incapable of giving attention to death itself.

My biggest fear is that on my deathbed I would be focused on what never had my focus to begin with, but at that moment, it would be too late.

All the attention that your regrets will have when it’s too late could’ve had that same attention when it wasn’t.

I think you should live life in a way so that in the end you won’t wish you had another one.

The only way to get to “enough” is to put your attention to that which is fulfilling and important to you.

Don’t waste another moment. Own this life, and it will be enough.