Be Vigilant With Your Attention
Don’t let it lapse.
A lapse is a temporary failure of concentration or judgment. For example, a sports commentator might say, “a lapse of concentration in the second set cost her the match.”
A lapse of attention may seem inconsequential but can have permanent consequences.
When you allow your attention slide for a moment, don’t think you can pick up where you left off.
Keep in mind that every mistake is an inflection point that branches into a different future. A minor mistake shifts you into an adjacent possible with a bit less potential.
Because of today’s lapse, everything that follows will be necessarily worse.
Letting our awareness guard down makes us more vulnerable to avoidable mistakes.
We aren’t’ perfect and will never be free from error. But it is possible to be a vigilant person always aware and striving not to make mistakes.
To paraphrase Annie Duke in her fabulous book Thinking in Bets, that vigilance of not letting our attention lapse will move us toward objectivity, accuracy, and open-mindedness. That movement compounds over time and creates a significant change in our lives.
