Everyone (and everything) is competing for your attention, use it wisely, you don’t get the time back! Your energy flows to where your attention goes.
The currency of life isn’t money. It is not even time. It’s attention.
In the war of attention, outwit, outlast, outplay.
What you trade your attention for is what your life becomes. The real currency of life is attention. A rational person should cultivate indifference to things that are out of their control.