Today Is Lost In Yesterday & Tomorrow
November 26th 2006 14:17
YESTERDAY--
What so many people cannot let go of. Memories may be good, yet if that is where the focus remains, then that is called 'living in the past'. Memories may be bad, such as severe trauma. Body and mind, holding on to what in all essence needs to be cut loose. Some call this hell.
So many people are stuck in yesterday.
TODAY--
In the moment, Being present. Stopping and smelling the roses. Being alive, now. Actually, all we are truly capable of is being alive, NOW. The rest is simply subterfuge? Focus on the present, today, and that is what moves energy into the future.
The hippies did it. "Be here now", they chanted. Weren't they just a bunch of drug taking, copulating dirt bags? Or were they on to something?
Recovering addicts do it. "One day at a time", this implying that today is where the attention must stay.
Success strategists suggest that, while today is important, it is essential to plan for the future. Being overly identified in just today, as the motivational mantra goes, is to have no stewardship over tomorrow.
TOMORROW--
Ah, elusive tomorrow. When I will be all that I can be, and everything will be good. It is great to have plans and intentions for tomorrow. Then you can say, "I have plans and intentinos for tomorrow." This is a valued statement, and many will then pat you on the back.
It does, though, come back to today. What is being done today to move energy toward tomorrow?
MY SYNOPSIS---
Today is where our primary focus must remain. This empowers us to be alive and enjoy our every moment. It truly is all we really have. Today. And this is what moves us into the future. Attention today, aligned with intention for tomorrow.
Yesterday can intoxicate and polute today if we allow this to happen. Bad memories will be toxic. Good memories for some will lead to a stuckness that is falsely identified as comfort zone.
Learn fom the past, yet do not become stuck in history.
Tomorrow is tricky and slippery. We all know, in our heightened levels of consciousness, that there is tomorrow. Unless...all sorts of things can take tomorrow away. Another reason to live in the moment.
Yet, I agree with the success motivators. Planning for tomorrow is what will make success and achievement more likely. The trick is to not become so obsessed that you forget about living today.
Live today, colored by yesterday, with direction into tomorrow.
ARE YOU IN TODAY, YESTERDAY, OR TOMOROW?
deorre
What so many people cannot let go of. Memories may be good, yet if that is where the focus remains, then that is called 'living in the past'. Memories may be bad, such as severe trauma. Body and mind, holding on to what in all essence needs to be cut loose. Some call this hell.
So many people are stuck in yesterday.
TODAY--
In the moment, Being present. Stopping and smelling the roses. Being alive, now. Actually, all we are truly capable of is being alive, NOW. The rest is simply subterfuge? Focus on the present, today, and that is what moves energy into the future.
The hippies did it. "Be here now", they chanted. Weren't they just a bunch of drug taking, copulating dirt bags? Or were they on to something?
Recovering addicts do it. "One day at a time", this implying that today is where the attention must stay.
Success strategists suggest that, while today is important, it is essential to plan for the future. Being overly identified in just today, as the motivational mantra goes, is to have no stewardship over tomorrow.
TOMORROW--
Ah, elusive tomorrow. When I will be all that I can be, and everything will be good. It is great to have plans and intentions for tomorrow. Then you can say, "I have plans and intentinos for tomorrow." This is a valued statement, and many will then pat you on the back.
It does, though, come back to today. What is being done today to move energy toward tomorrow?
MY SYNOPSIS---
Today is where our primary focus must remain. This empowers us to be alive and enjoy our every moment. It truly is all we really have. Today. And this is what moves us into the future. Attention today, aligned with intention for tomorrow.
Yesterday can intoxicate and polute today if we allow this to happen. Bad memories will be toxic. Good memories for some will lead to a stuckness that is falsely identified as comfort zone.
Learn fom the past, yet do not become stuck in history.
Tomorrow is tricky and slippery. We all know, in our heightened levels of consciousness, that there is tomorrow. Unless...all sorts of things can take tomorrow away. Another reason to live in the moment.
Yet, I agree with the success motivators. Planning for tomorrow is what will make success and achievement more likely. The trick is to not become so obsessed that you forget about living today.
Live today, colored by yesterday, with direction into tomorrow.
ARE YOU IN TODAY, YESTERDAY, OR TOMOROW?
deorre
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Comment by pegasus
Poker Addict
I like how you said "Live today, colored by yesterday, with direction into tomorrow". That about sums it up.
I find myself planning a lot for tomorrow....sometimes this makes today get 'lost in the shuffle'. I must try to enjoy 'the now' as you never know when there will be no more tomorrows.
Pegasus
Comment by Deorre
Stress Alive
Man Lessons
Thanks for reading.