A big lie we keep telling ourselves is:
"I don't have enough time!"
But let's be honest, if you care enough about something, you'll find the time for it.
It's not that you don't have enough time; you have as much time as everyone else does, right?
It's that you don't have enough "cares to give."
And every day you're giving away your precious, limited amount of "cares" to things that have none or little positive effect on your own life.
This happens in two ways, one is not your fault, the other is, but both are your responsibility to fix:
1. The part that may not be your fault:
This may not be your fault because you may not be aware that you are being robbed of your "cares."
With the Internet more accessible than clean water, there is a war out there.
And the dispute is over your attention.
Everyone wants a piece of your attention, and everyone is taking a piece in different ways,
leaving you more focused on outer space and less on your inner space.
Why are people at war over attention?
Enough amount of it gathered by a person/an idea can do wonders.
Thatโs not just about money.
In fact, people spend huge amounts of money and turn it into free magnets to attract attention.
Attention is what can later be reframed as fame, legacy, financial success, political and cultural influence.
Attention is power, and the competition for it has never been fiercer.
2. The part that is your fault:
And that is us trying to run away from life.
Itโs when weโre so afraid of being on track and doing whatโs necessary that we intentionally give away our time and attention to distractions.
Itโs like having a damaged roof, leaking the rain into our house, yet we keep ignoring our soaked life because itโs easier to do so.
Instead of sitting down for a moment, thinking whatโs really wrong in my life? What needs repair? What do I actually care about?
The โscary questionsโ
For those constantly seeking short-term answers, the shortest route to forgetting the scary questions is to get distracted.
Give your cares cheaply. Get fast dopamine. Be satisfied for a moment. Repeat.
We're so used to this cycle that we don't realize giving away our attention cheaply is actually the reason why we constantly feel stressed and eventually wonder why we lack time.
That's why reclaiming our focus is an important step.
Without it, we can't care enough to learn, fix, and grow.
Thanks for your attention,
It's Jay
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โ ๏ธ Warning from the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence
๐ Statement of the Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine, โ the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine
โ๏ธ Dear Ukrainians and our international partners!
โช๏ธ Two years after russia unleashed a full-scale war of aggression, Ukraine is facing an objective threat to its existence as a state, as a nation, as a community of free and equal people.
โช๏ธ In the context of deliberate distraction of the world's attention from the ongoing and bloody russian-Ukrainian war, the leadership of the aggressor country has resorted to a plan of planned sabotage, information operations and outright provocations.
โช๏ธ The main directions and goals of the enemy are to disrupt Ukrainian mobilisation, spread disinformation about Ukraine's inability to win, create and spread fakes about "fatigue from Ukraine" among our partners and allies in the world. The russians' global international goal is to reduce support for our country from the pro-Ukrainian coalition in the world.
โ๏ธ The goal of the russians inside Ukraine is to demoralise Ukrainians, sow panic among the population, drive a wedge between the military and civilians, and put everyone at odds with everyone, including representatives of the country's political leadership and civil society.
russian special services have extensive experience in conducting hybrid wars. They spend no less on information attacks against Ukraine than on conventional warfare.
๐ As reported by the Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine, in November last year, as part of the Maidan 3 special operation, russia spent almost $250 million on spreading anti-Ukrainian sentiment on the Telegram platform alone. The total budget of the operation was an astronomical $1.5 billion. This is the most expensive "action" of russian special services in history.
โ๏ธ โ๏ธโ๏ธSpecial operation "Maidan-3" will reach its culmination in March-May 2024, and in the coming weeks, the enemy will make every effort to spread narratives destructive to global security and attempt to incite conflicts โ both inside Ukraine and in other parts of the world where there is effective support for Ukraine.
โ๏ธ The methodology of the campaign is traditional for russian special services: to question the legitimacy of government decisions made in Ukraine after 20 May, to spread panic and disbelief, to artificially oppose civilians and the military, to quarrel us with our allies, and to spread all sorts of "conspiracy theories" in society. This is happening against the backdrop of russia's public statements about the creation of new types of superweapons, which, according to the russians, should ensure russia's technical superiority over the West for the next decade. It follows that opposition to russia's goals in Ukraine is dangerous for the world, and therefore russia will push other countries to engage in direct dialogue on Ukraine without our participation.
โ๏ธ Also, the russians, through their own agents of influence in Ukraine and around the world, will rely on organising various protest actions and deliberately discredit the prisoner of war exchange process.
โช๏ธ According to the enemy's plan, in the first half of June, the situation in our country will be shaken and then, taking advantage of the situation, Ukraine will be defeated militarily in the East, which is the key idea of their operation.
โผ๏ธ In view of the above circumstances, we call on Ukrainian society, our international partners and allies to strengthen joint resistance and comprehensive security measures, especially in the information space, to effectively counter global threats and challenges of the new global hybrid war. The war waged by the russian federation and its criminal allies against the entire civilised world today.
๐ค Our society needs unity.
๐บ๐ฆ Glory to Ukraine!