2 other aspects of wise or skillful attention concern the intervals before an action and after you have acted. It's quite a useful experiment with telling results to attend to your intention(s) before an either verbal, bodily or mental action. That means that you take a step back once you notice being about to say, do or think something. Why am I really doing, saying or thinking that? And is there more than one obvious intention driving this? So really take your time to check internally what is really going on, before you say or do or even think something. And then evaluate if what you are about to say or do is wholesome or unwholesome. Is it with the intent to benefit or harm the other being or myself? When I experimented with this I at first stopped in my tracks more often than not. This, as does all real Dhamma practice, takes a great amount of patience and honesty.
The second kind of wise attention is related to the first one. It is attending to the results of an action, again either verbally, bodily or mentally, on your body, heart and mind both in the short and the long run. Are there things I do regularly or that I really love to do, that are actually quite unskillful or harmful to my body, to the state of mind, to the heart? Am I getting more or less anxious, sensitive, calm or compassionate when the results of my actions kick in? And again with great determination let those activities, words or thoughts go that are not conducive to inner or outer wellbeing, calmness, peacefulness and compassion, and cultivate those that are.