The future is never going to be what you expect it to be.
Things will rarely, if ever, turn out as well as you hope or as poorly as you fear.
Time moves too fast for you to catch it with anticipation.
It cannot be pinned down, controlled, or beaten into submission.
The harder you try to grasp at life in your mind, the further you push it away from yourself.
As you read this, the future has already come and gone.
Did you expect to be here, now?
You cannot anticipate your way into a better future.
Anticipation does nothing to change what will come to pass.
The only thing anticipation affects is your ability to respond to what is happening now.
It takes you out of this moment.
It makes you less present, slower, and more rigid.
This, in turn, negatively impacts your experience of this moment and other people’s experience of you.
The best way to ensure you have a better future is to be present and attentive in this moment so that you can do your best work now and be your best self now.
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