When having trouble juggling all our responsibilities at home and work, many people will try and pull it together by focusing on tried and true time management techniques. While time management can be helpful, in this day and age we need to also really consider attention management. Yes, it's our attention that is all over the place and we become inefficient, ineffective, and most importantly not here for our lives. In a conference or at home, you might miss an important moment because of simultaneously typing out an email. Or maybe we don't think we have time for reflection or restoration during the day. We're so busy that it's difficult to sustain attention when someone else is speaking or can't focus when we want to. We become addicted to this sort of lifestyle feeling like It's imporant to begin to train our attention so we can choose what is most important to attend to in any given moment.

The thing about mindfulness is that it is easy-to-understand and practical to use in every day life to gain control of our attention. Bringing a mindful focus or practice into daily life can really help this so that we begin to feel like we're in control of what we want to focus on rather than focusing on a million things at once.

Go to any of these Vblogs now for a short taste of mindfulness practice. If you're interested in getting started on practice, click here to explore a resource and start today.

As always, feel free to comment on your thoughts between time management and attention management in your own life....Enjoy!