What you’re paying attention to directly influences what you’re investing your life in. Could you be making more beneficial investments? 你所关注的直接影响到你的生活投入。你能做更有益的投资吗？

Attention uses time, attention provides perspective, and attention drives effort. These factors significantly impact the quality of your life and your world. 注意力使用时间，注意力提供视角，注意力驱动努力。这些因素会显著影响你的生活质量和你的世界。

If you allow, your attention can be hijacked by trivial or even nefarious matters. Yet you can choose not to allow that. 如果你允许，你的注意力可能会被琐碎甚至邪恶的事情劫持。但你可以选择不允许。

Certainly it’s important to know what’s going on in the world around you. But it’s also important to point your precious, powerful attention toward furthering goodness and achievement. 当然，了解你周围的世界发生了什么是很重要的。但同样重要的是，要把你宝贵的、强大的注意力引向进一步的善良和成就。

Every minute of every day your attention is focused in one direction or another. Challenge yourself to manage your attention in a smart and purposeful manner. 每一天的每一分钟，你的注意力都集中在一个方向或另一个方向。挑战自己，以一种聪明而有目的的方式管理你的注意力。

Attention serves you best when it is intentional. Invest your attention where it does the most good, and your life will benefit greatly. 注意力在有意的时候对你最有利。把你的注意力投入到最好的地方，你的生活将受益匪浅。

— Ralph Marston - 拉尔夫·马斯顿