What would happen if we treated our attention as something sacred?! Amelia Hruby, creator of the Off the Grid podcast and Softer Sounds podcast studio says "You attention is sacred...I invite you to treat yourself and your time as sacred too." This stuck with me; persistently but gently, all week long it's been on repeat in my brain. In every moment I've heard myself wondering "hmmm, is this what I WANT to pay attention to?" Or more often, "Am I EVEN paying attention right now?" I time travel a lot in my brain - usually into the future. But as Amelia says "Treat yourself and your time as sacred too" and if we can do this it means that there will automatically be a reverence and where there is reverence there is love.
Listen in today and let's talk about how it feels to pay attention; to notice, as Rick Rubin says, what draws us in and what pushes us away. Where do we meet ourselves and our moments with love? And how can that bring us more deeply into the personal and specific, could only belong to us, beauty of our lives?
Homework Offering (Inspired directly from Rick Rubin's new book): Instead of watching the news this week; read a chapter in a great piece of literature everyday. Report back on how tuning into and paying attention to something beautiful makes you feel.
Good Things:
Check out Amelia Hruby's Podcast Off the Grid: she talks about how to build a thriving business off of social media, it's a beautiful listen and she is a good human.
https://www.softersounds.studio/off-the-grid
Pop-Up Book Club: Head over to Substack by March 10th to come join in all the fun. We're reading Rick Rubin's new book "The Creative Act: A Way of Being."