Connect with the moment

Lately, I've realized that I tend to miss out on some of life's most incredible lessons because I get so busy. Doing what you might ask? Well, worrying and thinking too much for instance.

We're caught in a world where it's too easy to get distracted. We wonder about our past decisions and we worry about decisions we might need to make in the future. But what gets lost in the middle is the present moment in our life. And that middle part is the sweet spot.

How many of us have fallen into the trap of wanting to achieve things because somehow (erroneously) we'd believed that we'd be happy once we've acquired those things (e.g. financial gain, social status, etc.)?

Rather than achieving to be happy, it'd be so much more fulfilling if we just "happily achieved."

Rather than regretting things passed or fretting about things yet to be, why not give into that which we can control right now--our present thoughts.

After all, we become what we consistently think about and subsequently act upon at that moment.

I need to connect with my present moment and remind myself constantly to, well, just be.

"What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you." -Old proverb