Make NOW your primary focus

Realise deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life —- Eckhart Tolle

We live in an age of distraction, yet one of life’s sharpest paradoxes is that our brightest future hinges on our ability to pay attention to the “now”. When you stay present, you can start to live your life in a +IVE way, as you can be truly focused on living in the now & not constantly worried about the future or the past.

If you become aware of your thinking, you can recognise when you are worrying & what you are worried about & if it hasn’t happened yet, know that you can’t control the future but you can control your thinking in the present moment. Hence:

1. IF YOU’RE WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE OR THE PAST: STOP. Focus on what you are doing right now & bring yourself back to the present. Once you can recognise when you’re worried about your future (or the past) & learn to stop, you will be one step closer to living in the now. When you are truly present, the future or past will not matter as you should be focusing on where & what you are doing now. Focus on making each moment +IVE & soon you’ll have a series of +IVE moments that make up your entire day.

2. FULLY APPRECIATE THE MOMENTS OF TODAY: When you start appreciating everything around you – basic things – you start to live in the now.

3. LOVE YOUR JOB: If you don’t like what you do, change it. We spend too much time at work to not make sure it’s something we like doing.

4. REDIRECT YOUR MIND WHEN IT WANDERS: It is very common for our minds to wander & think about other things. If you want to stay present, recognise when your mind starts to wander & then refocus back to now.

5. PRACTICE GRATITUDE: when thinking, speaking or writing what we are thankful for today, we are focusing on our “present” emotions.

Hence, if you apply the aforementioned, you will realise that it is YOU, not events, that have the power to make us happy or unhappy on any day. Which means, YOU can choose which it shall be. Ydy is dead, tmrw hasn’t arrived, so we have just one day, today, therefore choose to be happy in it & stop chasing the next thing or past events & keep smiling 😃!