Sometimes distractions irritate us, and sometimes the sneak up on us, seducing us without our awareness and stealing our attention.. How can you stop this? In reality, you probably can’t. So what can you do? German train stations give us a wonderful metaphor…

In our commercial world commodities that are high in demand and low in supply command great value. Internally, we have a resource that is the basis for engagement, learning, respect, felt empathy and even love. This resource is also under huge demand, internally and externally - we are bombarded minute by waking minute with opportunities to spend this resource, often without our conscious awareness. Yet the high-demand and low-supply ‘rule’ does not apply to this resource, for it remains massively undervalued.