Life is short.
It will pass by faster than you can imagine.
You cannot slow down time, but you can slow yourself down.
You can be more present and less distracted.
You can choose to make the most of each moment.
You can choose not to waste your time.
Start now.
CHOOSE PRESENCE
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
Meditations of a Gentle Warrior
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While you are worrying about what may be, you are missing what is.
You cannot control what is going to happen.
But you can control what you do in this moment.
You get to decide who you are, how you act, and what you say right now.
Do something that matters.
Be someone you are proud of.
Give this moment everything you’ve got because this moment is everything you’ve got.
You cannot slow life down.
You can, however, slow yourself down so that you live life more fully.
Pay attention to the tasks and the people in front of you.
Life is what is happening now.
Be present to this experience.
Savor this moment and every moment that follows it.
Life won’t slow down, but you will get more out of it if you do.
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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