Stop waiting for life to become remarkable before paying attention to it.

Waiting for life to become remarkable puts your attention permanently in a future that keeps moving. The result is a long stretch of unnoticed years followed by a sense that everything happened somewhere else. Remarkable is often just what unremarkable looks like when someone was paying attention.

Choose one ordinary hour today and give it the attention you would give a special one. Nothing about the hour changes. What changes is whether you were there for it, and that turns out to be most of what makes life feel full.