Mae West was famous for saying “It’s not the men in your life, honey; it’s the life in your men.” That’s a funny way of saying that, in a heads-up trade-off, quality beats quantity any day.
So, I’ll offer this thought to a couple of days of brilliant blog posts from my gifted colleagues:
Your life is measured by what you pay attention to.
When you think about it, your attention is YOU. It’s literally your “life force.” It’s the energy you summon and give to the world around you.
It’s really the scarce resource in our lives. Not money. Not even time. It’s our attention.
Like any form of energy, it can be strong or weak. Positive or negative. Focused or scattered. Connected or disconnected.
The modern world has the potential to sap our life’s energy by draining it of force and focus, scattering it across too many distractions, too many obligations, too much multi-tasking.
Imagine yourself a worker on a packaging line, with little boxes representing the moments of your life steadily and relentlessly passing by. All of us have our own packaging line. Some get more boxes than others. That’s not the point. The point is this: Our job is to ship the boxes full, not empty or incomplete, right?
Right?
It’s our choice to recognize this and do something about it, or passively to allow the empty or incomplete moments to pass right by us. Chronological age is how many moments have passed by so far. It’s an incomplete measure of life. The true measure of life is how many moments you have chosen to fill and ship to others as your “finished goods.”
Otherwise it just a warehouse littered with empty boxes…
It’s not the years in our lives, honey; it’s the life in our years.
Who are you pouring yourself into today?
Are you fully alive in this moment?
Do you know what matters most, and what’s important NOW?
Tell us how great it feels to fill each of those boxes…
BUILT TO LEAD 
Brilliant!!!
KP
I have to say, politics and religion provoke the best along with the the worst in folk. The very best because both can result in people being incredibly altrusitic, the bad side as both can lead to amazingly obdurate and irrational action. I am not having a go at you, your comments simply made me realize this, so thank you for that.
Loriann,
Thank you for your comment. I agree with you; humans have a way of doing angelic and demonic things routinely. That said, I was blogging about individual focus and conscious living, not politics or religion. Did you pick those themes up in my post, or were you just musing about them? Anyway, thanks again for your comment.