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Velvet Wings - © Nebojsa Radojevic, Photographer
When you
are living in the present, you know what's important for you, and
you act on that knowing.
Your sense
of timing and your instincts become sharp.
Time
itself slows down and you adapt fluidly to the reality of the
present moment.
When we focus on What's Important Now,
we become the best
we can be
during our own most challenging moments.
Whether we
are dealing with a rebellious child,
persisting
with an annoying repair job around the house,
or leading
an important business meeting,
we are
deciding that this activity is the most important thing
we could
be doing in our lives in this moment.
We
are not experiencing an urge to be somewhere else,
to do
something else, or to think about something else.
Mark Twain
once said, "I have worried about a great many things in my life.
And a few
of them actually happened."
To
experience the joy, the self-confidence, and the excellence that
comes with living in the present,
you must
find a way to let go of what you think should be happening,
in order
to immerse yourself in what is happening.
John
Kuypers
Excerpted
from
What's Important
Now?
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