“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” John Burroughs
Sometimes we get lost in planning, anticipating a moment that x or y will be better or worse, or an experience can happen only when x or y happens. We delay living now for some moment in the future. While we may hold goals for the future and engage in ways in the present to support those goals, if a pattern is recognized that is often leaving the present for tomorrow, the invitation for growth is in meeting the moment and seeing what it wants to say.
Questions that can support awareness of a tendency to leave the present or delay moments of living fully today are: 1) In what area(s) of my life do I seem to neglect or not make sufficient time for? 2) Do I have many “If x, then y can be” understandings that can be seen in another way and allow for an experience today, and not in the future? 3) Are there areas of my life that feel out of balance and/or experience a lack of ease (physical, emotional, psychological)?
If there are challenges identifying these things, sometimes a trusted mentor, friend, partner, family member or therapist can support you in finding the opportunities right where you are AND just as you are, to live right now with consideration of priorities and values aligned.
Sometimes we get lost in planning, anticipating a moment that x or y will be better or worse, or an experience can happen only when x or y happens. We delay living now for some moment in the future. While we may hold goals for the future and engage in ways in the present to support those goals, if a pattern is recognized that is often leaving the present for tomorrow, the invitation for growth is in meeting the moment and seeing what it wants to say.
Questions that can support awareness of a tendency to leave the present or delay moments of living fully today are: 1) In what area(s) of my life do I seem to neglect or not make sufficient time for? 2) Do I have many “If x, then y can be” understandings that can be seen in another way and allow for an experience today, and not in the future? 3) Are there areas of my life that feel out of balance and/or experience a lack of ease (physical, emotional, psychological)?
If there are challenges identifying these things, sometimes a trusted mentor, friend, partner, family member or therapist can support you in finding the opportunities right where you are AND just as you are, to live right now with consideration of priorities and values aligned.
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