When we were tiny babies no one had to teach us how to live in the moment. We just did so, naturally.

Time was magical, with toes to discover and rattles to play with. As long as our basic human needs were met, only the present moment mattered, only the present moment existed.

Then we began to grow up and many of started to forgot how to stay fully present. We started remembering experiences from our past and rehearsing for our future.
I wonder how much of your life is spent thinking about some goal or event in the future-worrying about things that need to be done next week or fantasising about how great life will be when….?

It’s these very thoughts that continually lean toward your future that can rob you of your present moment – YOUR life.

Remember the saying ‘enjoy the journey’, or as Zig Ziglar would say ‘Success is not the destination.’

Your life is created by how you feel in the moment. The feelings that you have NOW attract the building blocks for your future.

So, if you aren’t at ease with who you are now or how your life or business is going, you are going to attract experiences that are a reflection of those feelings, and it will be difficult to ever reach a state of contentment or satisfaction.

It’s easy to lose touch with just how amazing life really is when you continually think about the future and what you’re going to gain, do or accomplish down further down the road.

A simple way to live in the moment and enjoy the journey of life is to find everything and anything that you can be grateful for and to give thanks.

There’s a wonderful Zen passage, “Success is not found in what you have achieved, but rather in who you have become.”

“Who you have become” is directly related to the growth that happens along the way to your future.

Stay on course in the direction of your dreams but keep your mind and heart in the present moment, because that’s where the richness of life lies and where transformation happens.

So don’t worry about what you could’ve or should’ve achieved last week or what you might do tomorrow. The only time you can effect is NOW, the present moment.