We tend to be future oriented
The majority people who read this blog – and folks I know – are future oriented. That’s a great thing. The are willing to put in sacrifice now for a better future. This is GREAT and what we’ve trained ourselves to be:
- Diligently studying in school; getting multiple degrees
- Grinding through late nights, doing great work to gain valuable skills
- Saving (instead of spending) and investing those funds for retirement
- Sharing what they know with others; mentoring, apprenticing
- Sacrificing for their kids, parents, spouse, company, everyone
focusing on now is hard
I am a victim of routine; it’s even more true now than ever before. We do what we did. It’s comfortable, friendly, and predictable. What’s the fault in that?
Eckhart Tolle is an author and thinker who writes a lot about being present, not over-thinking. He argues that we over-think and spend too much of our lives regretting the past, and worrying about the future. Sound familiar? Busy-ness does not equal happiness. Power of Now (affiliate link). There is a lot of new age-y stuff in the book, which I don’t agree at all. . . but that’s okay. I don’t have to agree with everything to appreciate his main point.
- Fundamentally, right now is all we will ever have
- Most of the time we shuffle through each day without real recognition of the “now”
- “The present moment is life itself.”
- Now is not a stepping stone to tomorrow
- Who says that you have to “wait to live a life?”