More than money.

In moments.

In mindshare.

In meaning.

Attention is what I spend

when I forget I’m spending.

I open an app.

I scroll.

I respond.

I refresh.

I say it’s for connection.

For insight.

For momentum.

If I have the courage to ask,

What has changed?

What do I remember?

Do I remember?

What do I feel clearer about?

Do I feel clearer?

Would I pay someone else

to spend their attention

the way I spent mine?

It’s easy to ask:

Was it productive?

It’s harder to answer:

Did it align me?

Did it remind me?

Did it restore me?

If it didn’t,

maybe it wasn’t free.

Maybe it cost me what I didn’t notice

until I spent it.

Attention is not infinite.

It’s sacred.

It’s the currency of my clarity.

What I attend to

shapes what I become.

I’m learning to ask a better question:

What was the return on my attention?