What Is Attentional Fitness? 

Daron’s Attentional Fitness approach to mindfulness includes doable exercises, empowering habits, and personalized coaching to strengthen self-awareness, resilience, and empathy. 

You don’t have to be an Olympic athlete to exercise. You just need to find exercises you want to do and the support you need to do them consistently. 

It’s the same with using mindfulness to develop empowering attention skills. 

You don’t have to live like a monk to become more present. You just need to find mindfulness exercises that fit you and practice sneaking them into your life. 

Mindfulness develops several empowering capacities:

  • Calm — The ability to find and savor psychologically restful states when they’re available. 

  • Composure —- The ability to fight less internally when you’re feeling uncomfortable or confused. 

  • Concentration — The ability to decide what to pay attention to instead of being at the mercy of whatever insists on it. 

  • Curiosity — The ability to notice the extraordinary richness lurking in ordinary moments. 

  • Compassion — The ability to recognize the humanity you share with others. 

  • Contentment — The ability to inhabit your life fully regardless of circumstances outside of your control. 

A personal trainer helps you identify and learn exercises to develop strength, endurance, and flexibility. 

In a similar way, Daron customizes attention exercises for his coaching clients and helps them navigate common obstacles to establishing mindful habits. He also helps organizations promote and support mindful leadership, teamwork, and communication skills. 

Committing to Attentional Fitness means developing attention habits and skills that make it easier to shift out of autopilot mode and experience life in more fulfilling ways.

  • Learn flexible, multi-sensory exercises

  • Savor pleasant moments more

  • Wrestle with unpleasant moments less

  • Cultivate empathy, kindness, and compassion

By pulling in more sensory perceptions and addressing common misconceptions, Daron’s approach is grounded in the science and art of improving the way you relate and respond to thoughts, feelings, and people, regardless of circumstances outside your control.

I don’t practice mindfulness to get good at sitting alone in a quiet room. I practice to be better able to focus and recharge and to regulate my emotions.
— Daron Larson, from “Finding Your Own Path,” WBNS-10TV