Welcome back to our Summer Conversations.

This week marks yet another reason to celebrate..19 years of marriage for us…WOW!! Cheers to that!! 🥂

Whenever our anniversary rolls around, I find myself reflecting on the same thing.

Not the years or the milestones.

Not even the memories, although there have been plenty of beautiful ones....and some that still bring me to my knees.

What I find myself thinking about is what makes something last.

A marriage.

A friendship.

A business.

A family.

A life.

For a long time, I thought the answer was time. What I’ve realized is:

There are plenty of things competing for our time, but far fewer that deserve our attention.

We can spend years moving alongside people, projects, and priorities without really being present to them. We can love something deeply and still forget to nurture it. We can say something matters while giving our attention to a hundred other things simultaneously.

And if there's one thing 19 years has taught me, it's that the things that thrive tend to receive our attention. Attention is far more valuable than time.

Not constant or perfect attention. That doesn't really exist.

Just focused attention on the precious few.

The small conversations.

The deeper questions.

Holding space and listening without trying to fix.

The decision to keep choosing what matters.

Again and again.

This powerful principle is true for our own lives.

And maybe that's one of the gifts of summer.

It slows things down just enough for us to notice where our attention has been going and where we'd like it to go next.

So here's the question I've been sitting with this anniversary week:

What deserves a little more of your attention right now?

J'aime xo