'NOW' is All You Have

Life should be lived one day at a time. Our lives would be better and free of those debilitating worries, if only we learn to enjoy every passing moment of our life. There would always be challenges to face tomorrow, and there would always be yesterday's failure to brood about, but ask yourself, if you spend all your time dwelling on these fears, anxieties and failures, when are you going to live your life?

Learning to live in the present requires physical efforts, because, by nature, the mind will always worry, unless you train it not to. How do you train yourself to be conscious of 'now' and nothing else?

First, you must learn to take stock of your thinking. Concern yourself, always, with what is happening around you, NOW. Consciously monitor what you are thinking, for a start, every moment in time, each time you find yourself worrying [some would say thinking] of what 'could happen' or what 'has happened'; stop the thinking process and direct your attention to the present. With time, you will see that you can subconsciously control what you think.

Two, develop a positive outlook on life. Learn to see the bright side of things, even when everything looks so hopeless. Refuse to accept false/negative realities. And when things get 'real bad', continually remind yourself that 'worrying' about it, won't change any thing.

Three, refuse to dwell on the failures of yesterday, it's not just worth it. Everyday and in everything you do, put your very best, if it succeeds, learn from your success and move on; if it fails, learn from your mistakes and try again. Life's too short to be spent on yesterday's failures or tomorrow’s problems.

In everything you do, remember, always, that NOW is all you have; yesterday is gone, forever, and tomorrow might never come. Make the best of NOW.

Words for Today

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt