Good morning and welcome to the increase your impact podcast. I'm just in

episode 1,783. Winifred Gallagher is the author of the book,

Rapped Attention and the Focused Life. In the book, she makes a couple

of a couple of really cool claims. The first one is, she says, quote,

the skillful management of attention is the key to a good life and the key to

improving virtual every aspect of your experience. And this

she goes on to say, your life, who you are, what you think, feel and do,

what you love is the sum of what you focus on. Close quote.

I love that because often in my work with professional athletes,

we talk about protecting three things, your time, your energy and your

attention. Those three things are discussed all the time because

those are finite resources that are critical to success. You're going to

have differing levels of time, differing levels of attention and differing

levels of energy. And it's imperative that they manage each one of

these to be able to be the best version of themselves when it matters

most. Now, as I've said a thousand times, professional athletes do not

have the corner market on this stuff. You as a father, as a mother, as a

coach, as a teacher, as a student, as an athlete yourself need to

protect those three things. Your time, your attention, and your energy.

And one of the key pillars to that is paying attention to what you're

focused on. Where is your attention right now? And one exercise that

help you center yourself on the here and now is to do something called

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