Why do you suppose it is that almost every religious symbol since the Egyptians screams out, "Pay attention!"? A Celtic cross is basically a giant set of cross-hairs. The Dharma wheel is a perfect target. And the symbol of the Jains is literally a big hand saying, "Stop! Look at this target thingy right here!"

When you are giving something your full attention, time stands still. When you are playing the guitar, making love, or getting hit in the face in a sparring match, you are essentially in touch with the eternal -- from the Latin aeternus , meaning atemporal. In other words, outside the bonds of time.

Get this through your head right now.

Paying attention is the secret sauce that makes your martial arts burger tasty and delicious.
Paying attention is the splashy color that makes your oil painting fry people's brains out when they look at it.
Paying attention is the magic mojo that makes your lover want to hold your hand until the sun becomes a black hole.
Not paying attention is what makes you step on snakes and tumble down slippery slopes and fall on punji stakes and suffer a short a miserable life.

Pay Attention: Training Involution #152

This week do whatever you want -- as long as you do it with your whole heart, your whole mind, and your whole attention.

It doesn't matter what you do as much as how you do it.

This is why we journal in Cabal Fang -- to focus and refocus our attention -- and this is why journaling makes you powerful. Do something with full attention and then write it down.

That is all.