I'm human. You're human. We do human things and sometimes its a hindrance from what we really want out of life.

But that's okay. There's hope. In this article I'm going to introduce 3 Laws that can help any creator push through their inner blocks.

Law 1: Attention is the Only Real Currency

Time management is the downstream effect of attention management. Most “living well” advice fails because it focuses on hours instead of energy.

Firstly, we must address one significant thing that I wish more people would talk about: your time is finite.

Your lifespan is an unknown number of heartbeats. Every minute you give to a person, a screen, a room, or a thought, is a minute of finite, irreplaceable life that you have converted into currency and handed over. No refunds, no interest, no inheritance.

This means that we must, with extremely delicate care, weigh and consider every thing that takes our very finite and limited time and determine if it adds value to life or not.

Attention thieves hide in three places:

  1. Environment
    Every object you own, every notification you allow, every plant on the windowsill is a tiny open tab draining energy from your attention account. Possessions are not neutral; they are vampires with good marketing.
  2. Obligations you never chose
    The meeting that could have been an email, the favor you can’t remember agreeing to, the app that “only takes a second.” These are micro-transactions that compound into a second lifetime gifted to other people’s priorities.
  3. The addiction to addition
    Human default setting: when life feels off, add something—another course, another tool, another relationship, another habit. The sovereign move is the opposite: subtract until what remains shines through.

Time and attention is the only economic measurement you need to remember. Everything else is secondary. Law 1 is about acknowledging the things that are stealing your attention, and therefore your time.

Guard your attention and time the way a dragon guards gold because it is the only gold that actually belongs to you. Everything else is borrowed from the universe.