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Be Here Now. The Art Of Living For Today.
Every year, roughly 1% of your life is gone. Forever.
You won’t get it back, nor will it resurface sometime in the future. It’s vanished. How bleak and depressing is that?
Yet, the same is true for the future. For all you know, you don’t have one.
Life is both short and long, but when you live in the past, or the future, you miss the present.
When you live for today, everything else falls in place. Ask yourself this question.
Marcus Aurelius, a practitioner of stoicism, reminded himself each day to,
“stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore?”
It’s a powerful question to ask yourself. As you get clarity on what it means to you, you’ll begin to reshape your goals and execute them in the present.
It’s a part of your best week ever.
“The present moment is the only time in which life truly unfolds. You cannot re-live your life in the past, nor can you live your life in the future,” says Patrick McKeown in his book The Oxygen…
