Your Personal Power Is Too Valuable To Hand Over to the Outrage Machine

I’ve noticed something the past few days.

I haven’t watched the news.

I skim the headlines for about thirty seconds so I know what’s happening.

Then I delete the email and move on with my day.

Not because I don’t care.

Because I’m clear about where my power actually lives.

I can stay informed enough to call or write an elected official.

That’s real participation.

But willingly submitting my mind and nervous system to a constant feed of outrage and chaos does nothing useful.

It doesn’t change policy.

It doesn’t solve problems.

It just drains the very energy I need to live my life well.

My power is here.

In what I build.

In how I spend my attention.

In how deeply I stay connected to my own soul.

Everything else is noise trying to rent space in my head.

And I’m getting very intentional about what I allow to live there.