Okay today is a consulting zen day.
I read a little quote this morning. I modified it a little bit to fit. If you are like me, which may be a bigger issue, you spend more time thinking about the future.
Keep this in mind for the remainder of the week:
I read a little quote this morning. I modified it a little bit to fit. If you are like me, which may be a bigger issue, you spend more time thinking about the future.
Keep this in mind for the remainder of the week:
If you think about what might have been,
or what might be,
you ignore what is.
And all there truly is - is what is. There is now. And then it's gone. Now. And then that's gone.
Nothing wrong with planning. It's when you are so busy living in the future you forget that the only thing you can control is you in the present or now. You (no one else and nothing else) and now (not yesterday, not tomorrow).
Take your eye off the now, go into the future or the past in your mind instead of just being and doing in the now, and you split yourself. This splitting of yourself, causes a lot of stress on your body. It ages you. It gives you ulcers. It raises your blood pressure. It makes you sick.
Stay in the moment. Focus and concentrate on the task in front of you. Let go of the outcome. And life becomes, frankly, better. I am not sure how it works. I know it just does.
As professionals we are split. Living in the past: "I wish I would have . . . " Or "I can't believe that happened . . . " Or split living in the future: "When I get this, then I will take a vacation (be happy)." Or: "I hope this happens (or doesn't happen)."
Do you do this? You are splitting yourself.
Our society, our work ethic says, do more, have more, then be. Focus on the outcome, the result, the end. However, be now. Do now. Focus on the task in front of you like a mountain climber watching where he places his feet, looking up now and then, to see if he is still aimed at the right summit.
When you are too focused with eyes on the summit, you take your eyes off where you are (your footing), and you loose your balance as you lose your hold on where you are today. And you stumble. Perhaps even fall.
This practice is probably one of the hardest to teach and harder to absorb and make part of our daily regimen.
Try it by practicing it.
Nothing wrong with planning. It's when you are so busy living in the future you forget that the only thing you can control is you in the present or now. You (no one else and nothing else) and now (not yesterday, not tomorrow).
Take your eye off the now, go into the future or the past in your mind instead of just being and doing in the now, and you split yourself. This splitting of yourself, causes a lot of stress on your body. It ages you. It gives you ulcers. It raises your blood pressure. It makes you sick.
Stay in the moment. Focus and concentrate on the task in front of you. Let go of the outcome. And life becomes, frankly, better. I am not sure how it works. I know it just does.
As professionals we are split. Living in the past: "I wish I would have . . . " Or "I can't believe that happened . . . " Or split living in the future: "When I get this, then I will take a vacation (be happy)." Or: "I hope this happens (or doesn't happen)."
Do you do this? You are splitting yourself.
Our society, our work ethic says, do more, have more, then be. Focus on the outcome, the result, the end. However, be now. Do now. Focus on the task in front of you like a mountain climber watching where he places his feet, looking up now and then, to see if he is still aimed at the right summit.
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| Keep your attention and focus in the present moment. That is all there truly is. Where are you? Are you split in the future, the past, and sometimes in the present? Talk about stress . . . |
This practice is probably one of the hardest to teach and harder to absorb and make part of our daily regimen.
Try it by practicing it.
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