Personal Growth: Staying in the present moment April 23, 2019
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Living in the Now.Tags: Eckhart Tolle, focussing, life, negative thinking, personal growth, philosophy, self-actualization, The Power of Now, the present moment, writing
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Most of us won’t admit it, but we often spend a large proportion of our mind-time on revisiting the past and particular in visiting the future by anticipating and visualizing how our life situation is likely to unfold; and in so looking, we tend not to foresee options but rather make assumptions on probabilities, often negatively.
In trying to be in two places at once, we miss opportunities in the most important third place…the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle sums up this paradox nicely in his book The Power of Now:
“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time; the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation…This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future.
The Now is the most precious thing there is. The eternal present is the space in which your whole life unfolds.
Life is now.”
Personal growth: The best day of the week to accomplish goals November 1, 2018
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Goal Setting and Realization.Tags: accomplishing goals, goal setting, life, philosophy, psychology, self-actualization, setting goals, the importance of today, writing
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It might be that certain days of the week are better than others for accomplishing specific self-actualization goals, but the reality is that the best day on the week for working on most goals is…
…the day we are living in right now, today.
Obviously it cannot be yesterday, yet how often we tend to revisit yesterday with “if only” or, “I should have.”
Intellectually we know we cannot change the past, but we still enjoy revisiting it.
And for procrastinators, among whom I include myself, tomorrow can be very appealing.
But, as Abraham Lincoln is reported to have said, “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
Each of us knows all of this; we just need to remind ourselves of the true importance of today.
Dennis Mellersh
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