I’ve spent much of my adult life trying to control all aspects of my life. You may be thinking, what’s wrong with having a deterministic attitude toward your own life and success? Isn’t that just ownership and accountability? Absolutely. But, we can go too far if we believe that we need to control every situation and outcome. Consider a few of the warnings.

This morning, I struggled to write a new blog – a new post about motivation. To help regain focus, I turned to my trusty Calm app and Jeff Warren, one of my favorite meditation guides.

At the end of the short meditation, he said, “What we pay attention to becomes our life.” That comment stopped me in my tracks. It made me think about the importance of the thoughts that fill our minds, day-in day-out.

What we pay attention to becomes our life. Put another way, what we focus on becomes who we are.