Are You Too Busy To Live in the Moment?
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This is one of the best one-liners I get from people who are learning how to live in the moment – “I’m too busy!”
Living in the moment is a crucial part of bringing mindfulness into your daily life. My formula for living in the moment is to repeatedly bring my mind back to the present time and my present situation, 100 times a day. That means every 5 minutes for an 8-hour timeframe. Eventually you’ll become present, and your thoughts will no longer drift to the past or to the future. And then the reminders are no longer necessary, because you are in the now for good. I have been living in the now since 2006, but it took me 6 months of active training to learn how to harness my mind to be in the present moment.
According to Harvard research, most people are absentminded for 47% of their lives. That’s no life!
If you follow my example and focus your energy on living in the moment, you should increase your in-the-moment percentage to 100% within 4-6 weeks, and then you can work to sustain it from there.
The difference is like night and day when you compare an absentminded person’s life, when the mind is wandering for half of your day, to the productivity that naturally unfolds when your presence is honed. Ask yourself:
What is more important than this moment anyway?
What is more important than your happiness?
What is more important than your productivity?
Instead of thinking you are too busy to live in the now, accept that your productivity will actually improve with a mindful focus on the present. Commit to drawing your mind back to the moment at hand, and soon it will be a habit that boosts your productivity and reduces time spent worrying or stressing about how busy you are.
Living in the moment is a crucial part of bringing mindfulness into your daily life. My formula for living in the moment is to repeatedly bring my mind back to the present time and my present situation, 100 times a day. That means every 5 minutes for an 8-hour timeframe. Eventually you’ll become present, and your thoughts will no longer drift to the past or to the future. And then the reminders are no longer necessary, because you are in the now for good. I have been living in the now since 2006, but it took me 6 months of active training to learn how to harness my mind to be in the present moment.
According to Harvard research, most people are absentminded for 47% of their lives. That’s no life!
If you follow my example and focus your energy on living in the moment, you should increase your in-the-moment percentage to 100% within 4-6 weeks, and then you can work to sustain it from there.
The difference is like night and day when you compare an absentminded person’s life, when the mind is wandering for half of your day, to the productivity that naturally unfolds when your presence is honed. Ask yourself:
What is more important than this moment anyway?
What is more important than your happiness?
What is more important than your productivity?
Instead of thinking you are too busy to live in the now, accept that your productivity will actually improve with a mindful focus on the present. Commit to drawing your mind back to the moment at hand, and soon it will be a habit that boosts your productivity and reduces time spent worrying or stressing about how busy you are.
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