Your Present is Your Gift
One thing over which you can exercise complete control is your present moment. By fully utilizing your present you can have innumerable “presents” throughout your life which are the rewards you get when you fully focus on the present and not thinking of either past or your future (except for planning).
All the great business empires that have been built over the ages, any great acts and performances that have been done by people are done by finishing or dealing with ONE THING AT A TIME in an excellent manner and thoroughly and not scattering the resources or energies in any other activities.
The same goes for you as well. Things are done in an excellent way by focusing fully on the PRESENT job or task at hand. The present moment is the moment that defines your future life and how well one could live in the present by completely utilizing it and forget about the past and the future, more often than not, decides ones quality of life in the future.
The 2 false illusions about the PRESENT that have been terribly ruining the success of many people are spread on the table for you and they are:
1. Worrying about the end-result:
Majority of the people, except those few who know the secret, worry about the end-result after they have made a decision to do something and then started to do it.
They forget to concentrate on doing the task at hand to the best of their ability because they are concentrating on the FUTURE: The END-RESULT! Or they concentrate on their past failures and start doubting themselves at the PRESENT moment rather than fully concentrating on doing the job at hand as best as possible.
The truth is our conscious mind can do only one task at a time efficiently and that’s what we are expected, to be successful. Just one thing at a time to be successful!
2. Having the false notion that we ought to do too many things at a moment to be successful:
Multi-tasking has become the fashion of the age. Now, it’s okay to be able to do many things at a time if the need arises, but in reality, most of the time we don’t really need to be a multi-tasker. This is the cause of all worries and anxieties.
In fact, successful men/women always give their full-fledged attention to one project at a time.
When you think that you ought to do many things at a time, you are cramming your conscious mind which in effect will stop the creative mechanism in you. You wouldn’t be able to come up with a solution when your mind is jammed with “did’s” and “Will be’s”.
You are worried about the great amount of work that’s before you; the list of to-do’s that you have virtually created in your mind which urges you to take 3 or 4 actions at a time!
But once you have planned your to-do list, forget them and just concentrate on the PRESENT assignment.
For instance, assume you are mowing your lawn. At the same time your mind jumps in to the future and thinks about the dentist appointment you have tomorrow and starts to have those jittery feeling about it. Then in a jiff, it leaps to your past and thinks about the rejection you have experienced from a prospect buyer yesterday.
It’s all in the visual images that you bring forth about the past and the future that destroys your PRESENT. If you visualize scores of problems or duties lying ahead that need to be addressed, according to you, at once, you’d naturally become so hurried!
If the children are taught this powerful principle, they’d become a top-class citizen and great human beings resulting in a stress-free society that’s full of first-rate in all the field.
Once you have started to convince yourself about this reality/truth that if we do one thing at a time our progress will be faster and our work will be of higher quality, you would by then have banished your worries, anxieties and other depressed feelings.
Just try this today: Concentrate on one thing at a time and never scatter your focus on other things. Do this for all the activities be it in your job or spending time with your children. You are sure to find a new feeling of poise in you and have relieved yourself from worries or stress of any kind.
You become like a sage when you practice this philosophy—you become more patient, will not be in a hurry, develop impeccable concentration and more than anything else be free from stress and worries.
Does this mean that you shouldn’t think about your past or future?
Of course not, the only moment where you could think about your past or your future is your PRESENT moment and that too only for planning your future or reviewing something about your past; definitely not to worry or become anxious about them.
Once you have planned or reviewed, just forget about them and enter the next stage: The execution stage. That’s where your PRESENT comes in to the scene. This execution part depends up on how well you could concentrate on your present and how well you could avoid being overwhelmed by your past or future.
Get yourself and your beloved ones PRESENTS for your new attitude that you have put on now.
Think one thought at a time, do one thing at a time and be one-of-a-kind at all times.
Wish you all the riches to come with God’s blessings
Success Park Publishers
