Grind, Hustle, or Devotion?

Today is your opportunity to create and achieve with your talent. Your attention and your time are what transform your talent into creation and achievement. What do you want to devote your talent, your attention, and your time to creating and achieving?

If you don’t know what to create or what to achieve, or you don’t know how to create and achieve things, you probably do know what you want to pay attention to. Pay attention. Devote your attention. What’s the problem you want to solve? What’s missing from the thing that you need to devote your attention to? How could it be better? What would increase your enjoyment of that experience? You just found the things you need to create and achieve. 

The most valuable gifts you can give are your time and attention, because your most valuable assets are your time and attention. You can devote your time and attention to serving the flourishing of someone you love, you can devote your time and attention to your own flourishing, or you can allow your attention to be commoditized by a corporation for their enrichment. The choice is yours.

It’s not about “grind” or “hustle,” it’s about devotion. What do you want to devote your talent to? What do you want to devote your time and attention to? Do you want to create and achieve with your talent, or do you want to let your talent go to waste so you can be distracted and entertained?

You don’t need to be monomaniacal about transforming your talent into performance. What are the non-negotiable priorities that you require to flourish? Resting, recovering, and recharging need to be on that list somewhere, because you’re not a machine. You need love and community to flourish. You need comfort and safety to flourish. You need embodied pleasures to flourish. But you probably don’t want to sacrifice your talent and your destiny for them, because wasted talent leads to regret and resentment.

Today is your opportunity to create and achieve with your talent, make decisions and take actions accordingly. Devote your time and attention accordingly. It’s your day. What do you want to do with it? It’s your talent. What do you want to do with it?