I’ve been reading a lot lately about how all of our power is in this moment.
If I stop worrying about all I still want to accomplish before this year is over and and refuse to time travel to the past and try and rewrite things I wished I had done differently, I’ve given myself access to the the very powerful now. I can be fully present – which is where the fun is and the manifestation occurs.
It sounds easy enough.
I can be conscious of where I am.
I can pause.
I can breathe.
I can be still.
I can notice what’s around me.
I can take an hour on an unseasonably warm fall day like yesterday and sit under a tree.
I can take action.
All in the moment.
It’s not a new concept.
Eckhart Tolle wrote about it in The Power of Now as have others. And in case I forget I have my friend Agapi Stassinopoulos to always remind me of her mother’s very wise words “Don’t Miss The Moment.”
But it’s hard to do in our very noisy, always on, always on to the next thing before the last thing is over, digital world.
Take Starbucks.
When I took that hour yesterday I stopped to get a coffee. There they were. Big and bold and red.
The Christmas cups.
The temperature hit 70 degrees in New York on Wednesday, Halloween was just days ago and Starbucks is pushing me into December.
They’re not the only culprits.
There’s that iPhone.
One glance and it’s like walking into a funhouse of distractions to take me away from the moment complete with all those bells and whistles and chimes reminding me of something. No matter how many times I think I have them all turned off, someone does an update and they default to alerts back on. Today it was Facebook who forced me to go into my settings and make it stop.
The media is another big offender.
Instead of being focused in the moment and on important stuff – like what we’re going to do about the immediate problem of homelessness, they’re obsessed with giving us the play by play of candidates running for an election that is still a full year away. The winner’s moment to have any real impact won’t even be until January 2017!
I refuse to succumb.
The outside world may be conspiring to distract and take me out of the moment, but I am going to continue to be conscious about staying in it. That’s where the power is. That’s where the magic is. That’s where the fun is.
I hope you join me.
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