PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE # 6: LIVE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT AND DO IT NOW
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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale
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The first secret of success is to live in the present and do it NOW.
NOW is the most important reality of life. It is only NOW that you can enjoy the fruit of success. You need to focus on the NOW. The only time you can actually do anything is NOW. The stuff that your life is made up of is what you think and say and do right now-today. Whatever you wish with certainty to become or to accomplish, you must be or do today.
If you want to assure yourself that your life will be what you want it to be, you must make it so at this moment- not this afternoon or tommorow or one week from now. Apply divide and conquer principle. Divide each day into the individual tasks to be done and then concentrate on the task you are doing now. Everything that happens in the world is being done NOW, in the present. The only time to take action on your goals and vision is NOW. Whatever happens tomorrow is already determined by what you did or did not do today.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino
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Live today effectively, usefully and successfully. Live one day at a time. Live one moment at a time. Celebrate your litlle success everyday. Celebrate your uniqueness everyday. Make each day a great day. You shall never live this day again. Many of us are either living in the past or in the future.
These are futile to meet the responsibility of today. Forget your past-because it is gone forever. Tommorow may never come.
It is the DO IT NOWERS who move the world forward. The world meeds the do it nowers mean of action, men who do not wait for opportunities, but create their own opportunities right where they now stand. Unless you act NOW, the opportunities for doing are gone for ever. You must adopt as the motto, THERE IS NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT TO DO IT.
The time to start becoming efficient is today. The time to make a sales call is today. The time to confess your to someone else is today. The time to start working on a project today. The best day really is today, so get started now, no matter what your problems are and no matter how long you have already proscrastinated.
Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality. Malala Yousafzai
FIVE WAYS OF DEVELOPING MORE OF A PRESENT-FOCUS
1 . Don't let the past cloud your future and ruin your present,
2 . Don't neglect your current responsibilities
3 . Don't pursue goals that no longer make sense for you
4 . Be the time conscious
5 . Become intensely action-oriented
As an anlogy, imagine that you have gone to see a movie in a theatre. While you are watching it, instead of being present, you are preaccupied with thoughts about the important meeting you have to attend tommorow, or you are thinking about in your office. The result is thast you are not able to fully enjoy the movie. While you are physically sitting in the theatre, your mind is somewhere is somewhere else. This is precisely what happens to you when you re not present in your own life. Your mind is so often in a different time and space that you end up missing your own movie of life.
The Power of the Present Moment
• Being fully present means being fully mindful. It is a timeless state of mind, not limited simply to what is happening around you in the physical world at any given moment.
• Stay anchored in the present moment by paying attention to what you are paying attention to. When your attention wanders, and you feel pulled in more than one direction, your awareness is fragmented by the stresses of past events and the weight of future expectations.
• Certainly, it is useful and often necessary to look at the past (for reminiscing or analyzing) or the future (for planning or daydreaming). As long as you focus your undivided attention on such thoughts, your mind and spirit remain fully engaged.
• Living in the stream of the present moment requires diligence and will power; still, it is all too easy to get swept away by the crosscurrents of daily living. Let regular occurrences and daily rituals—a ringing phone, brushing your teeth, starting your car—serve as reminders to return to the “now.”
• When you are fully engaged in the present, every moment becomes extraordinary. Fears and worries fall away and you are “in the zone,” operating at peak capacity.
• You are authentically being who you are, and on the fast track to becoming all that you are meant to be.
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Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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