Attention = identity


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A weekly newsletter with practical, powerful, bite-sized lessons to shift your mindset, habits, and life—one idea at a time.


Intro

Guard Your Attention

Welcome back to Fuel Your Mind — your weekly spark for personal growth and sharper thinking.

Each issue delivers:

  • 10 powerful ideas to challenge your mindset
  • Curated content to inspire action
  • Practical tools to help you become your best self

This week's theme: Guarding Your Attention.

You don’t need more time. You need more focus.

Attention is your most valuable asset.

It's more than your money, tools, or time. It’s the root system of your thoughts, actions, and future identity.

What you consistently pay attention to becomes your worldview. It shapes your habits, your self-talk, and the opportunities you even notice in the first place.

And yet, we give it away for free.

  • To notifications.
  • Scrolling.
  • Endless tabs.
  • Mental noise.

In a distracted world, attention is a valuable commodity. And most people are going broke.

If you want a sharper mind, a more potent edge, and a more intentional life, start here:

Audit where your attention goes. Then, guard it with discipline.

Remember: the best project you’ll ever work on is you. Let's dive in.


Top 10 Ideas of the Week

Attention

Here’s your weekly spark to think deeper, act smarter, and grow stronger:

1. Attention is the new IQ.

→ 🎥 Watch: How to Get Your Brain to Focus

2. Your brain becomes what you consume.

→ 📖 Read: Do We All Need a Digital and Social Media Detox?

3. Distraction is not random; it's engineered.

→ 📖 Read: Stolen Focus by Johann Hari

4. You can't do deep work with a shallow mind.

→ 📖 Read: How to Concentrate Better at Work and Eliminate Distractions

5. Every distraction has a cost.

→ 🎥 Watch: 10 Simple Habits That Make You More Focused Than Others

6. You are what you repeatedly notice.

→ 📖 Read: The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker

7. Start your day in control, not in chaos.

→ 📔 Try: The Daily Highlight Method

8. Protect your input diet.

→ 📖 Read: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

9. What you ignore is just as powerful as what you engage.

→ 📖 Read: 10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Attention Span

10. Attention compounds like money.

→ 📖 Read: Atomic Habits, check out Chapter 4 on cues and attention


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Featured Content

The Mental Diet: How to Curate Your Inputs and Protect Your Focus

We obsess over food labels.

Yet, we rarely check the content we consume.

  • Every TikTok video or YouTube Short
  • Every LinkedIn post
  • Every news headline

And just like junk food, junk information leads to brain fog, poor decisions, and low-grade anxiety.

The bottom line is:

  • Your "mental diet" matters more than you think

Remember, you must curate higher-quality inputs for sharper outputs.

Today is a great time to hit the "reset button" to improve your focus and mindset.

Information can wreak havoc on your mind.

What are you consuming?

👉 📖 Read Your Mind Takes the Shape of What You Think


Featured Resource

Before You Hit Burnout (Again!), Read This ...

Have you ever looked at your life — the wins, the titles, the carefully built world — and thought: “Is this really what I’m meant to be doing or just what I was told I should want?”

Maybe for you it’s some version of:

“How did I get everything I thought I wanted and yet still end up feeling empty?

You’re who Dr. Eboni L. Truss created this guide for…

Her 3-Step Guide to Rediscovering Purpose and Finding Fulfillment was designed for the high-achieving professional who is starting to question the version of success they’ve been sold.

What if, instead of experiencing the fear of having to start over from scratch, you could confidently reconnect with the part of yourself that got buried under the pressure, the roles, and the rules…?

Inside her guide, Eboni gives you three decisive actions, including a 7-day plan, to help you:

  1. Name what no longer fits
  2. Reconnect with what lights you up
  3. Start building a life that feels real, not just “impressive”

👉 Get her 3-Step Guide to Rediscover Purpose + Find Fulfillment in Life here.

You don’t have to blow everything up to get your life back.

You need a better way forward.

If you’ve quietly said to yourself, “I can’t do this like this anymore,” this guide was written just for you.


Bonus! Featured Resource

Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport

A modern classic on reclaiming focus in a distracted world.

Learn how to:

  • Build focus-enhancing habits
  • Design distraction-proof routines
  • Train your mind for meaningful work

👉 Get the Book


Resource Corner

How Can I Help You?

Whether you're here to learn, grow, or sharpen your skills, here are a few tools to fuel your journey:

🎯 What’s your AI Superpower Score? → → A free quiz to discover how well you’re using AI in life & work.

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📕 Buy the 251 Ideas eBook on Amazon251 Ideas is now available for Kindle.

📺 Watch Knowledge Enthusiast on YouTube → Bite-sized lessons to think sharper, level up smarter.

📝 Read the Blog → Deep dives, sticky insights, and personal growth tactics.


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Until Next Time

Where Does Your Attention Go?

This week, try an attention audit.

  • Look at the first hour of your day.
  • What steals your focus?
  • What strengthens it?

Protect your attention like your life depends on it—because it does.

Your future is shaped by what you notice, what you overlook, and where your energy is directed.

Fuel your mind. Expand your world.

Until next Sunday,

Matthew Royse

Editor of Fuel Your Mind newsletter & Creator of Knowledge Enthusiast

Disclosure: I'm an affiliate of Tally and Amazon.

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