I’m busy.

I’m moving.

I’ve got momentum.

It feels like progress.

It looks like direction.

It’s urgency.

I didn’t choose it.

I caught it.

Like a cold.

I call it alignment.

It’s appeasement.

I couldn’t see

that I outsourced

my intention.

I was chasing expectations

I didn’t set.

Sprinting towards a finish line,

in a race

I didn’t want to be in.

Effort without ownership.

Attention without alignment.

Alignment is found

in the right question

at the right time.

Whose goal is this?

Direction is found

in awareness.

Where I place my attention

is where I direct my life.

If I’m not on my attention,

I’m on someone else’s intention.