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Episode 068 - Time for Attention
Influence Every Day Show with Dr. Ed Tori
We often hear that time is our scarcest non-renewable resource. This episode challenges that assumption.
While time is finite, it is not the true constraint shaping our lives, our relationships, or our outcomes. The real limiting factor is attention. Attention is more scarce than time, more fragile than time, and far more powerful in determining how time is experienced and used.
Attention is not just about where it goes. It includes how long it stays, how deeply it is applied, the intent behind it, and even when it is deployed. Attention can be placed in the present, replayed in the past, or projected into a future that may or may not arrive.
Because attention is a subset of time, it is what gives time its quality. Two people can spend the same hour and walk away with entirely different results based on how their attention was used.
This episode invites reflection without judgment.
Paying Attention vs Investing Attention
A key distinction explored here is the difference between paying attention and investing attention. Paying attention is often transactional, reactive, short term, and consumptive. It frequently leaves us feeling drained, fragmented, or wondering where the time went. Investing attention is deliberate, chosen, deeper, and oriented toward return. It is how relationships grow, conversations change lives, skills compound, and meaning accumulates over time.
When attention is invested rather than paid, it tends to energize rather than exhaust. It feels coherent rather than scattered. It flows rather than fragments. Investing attention shapes who we become because it reinforces patterns of presence, care, service, and growth. This is why attention is never neutral. Where attention goes, energy flows, and that thing grows.
The episode reframes productivity away from time management and toward attentional stewardship.
Managing attention well leads to better use of time, better management of energy, and more intentional action. Especially during moments of change, renewal, or reflection such as a new year, an anniversary, or a personal turning point, the question is not how to manage time better. The question is how to be more deliberate with attention.
The central takeaway is simple and demanding:
Time is not your scarcest non-renewable resource. Attention is.
Be deliberate.
Be intentional.
Where you place your attention will shape the quality of your life, your relationships, your growth, your service, and your legacy.
--
[ ***** What if you could pivot someone's entire life in a single conversation. You can. Here's an incredibly useful framework for doing just that: HypnoticGiftsBook.com ***** ]
[ ***** PS - Dr. Tori offers an influence immersion where he can help you 1-on-1 to level-up your influence and communication. Apply here: https://www.drtori.com/coaching-application-1on1 ***** ]
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By Dr. Ed ToriEpisode 068 - Time for Attention
Influence Every Day Show with Dr. Ed Tori
We often hear that time is our scarcest non-renewable resource. This episode challenges that assumption.
While time is finite, it is not the true constraint shaping our lives, our relationships, or our outcomes. The real limiting factor is attention. Attention is more scarce than time, more fragile than time, and far more powerful in determining how time is experienced and used.
Attention is not just about where it goes. It includes how long it stays, how deeply it is applied, the intent behind it, and even when it is deployed. Attention can be placed in the present, replayed in the past, or projected into a future that may or may not arrive.
Because attention is a subset of time, it is what gives time its quality. Two people can spend the same hour and walk away with entirely different results based on how their attention was used.
This episode invites reflection without judgment.
Paying Attention vs Investing Attention
A key distinction explored here is the difference between paying attention and investing attention. Paying attention is often transactional, reactive, short term, and consumptive. It frequently leaves us feeling drained, fragmented, or wondering where the time went. Investing attention is deliberate, chosen, deeper, and oriented toward return. It is how relationships grow, conversations change lives, skills compound, and meaning accumulates over time.
When attention is invested rather than paid, it tends to energize rather than exhaust. It feels coherent rather than scattered. It flows rather than fragments. Investing attention shapes who we become because it reinforces patterns of presence, care, service, and growth. This is why attention is never neutral. Where attention goes, energy flows, and that thing grows.
The episode reframes productivity away from time management and toward attentional stewardship.
Managing attention well leads to better use of time, better management of energy, and more intentional action. Especially during moments of change, renewal, or reflection such as a new year, an anniversary, or a personal turning point, the question is not how to manage time better. The question is how to be more deliberate with attention.
The central takeaway is simple and demanding:
Time is not your scarcest non-renewable resource. Attention is.
Be deliberate.
Be intentional.
Where you place your attention will shape the quality of your life, your relationships, your growth, your service, and your legacy.
--
[ ***** What if you could pivot someone's entire life in a single conversation. You can. Here's an incredibly useful framework for doing just that: HypnoticGiftsBook.com ***** ]
[ ***** PS - Dr. Tori offers an influence immersion where he can help you 1-on-1 to level-up your influence and communication. Apply here: https://www.drtori.com/coaching-application-1on1 ***** ]