Can You Enjoy Right Now?
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I am back at my computer to a mountain of e-mails and other tasks that have built up while I’ve been away, and I have realised something:
I need to stay more present with the moment and enjoy the place I am at right now, this instant, rather than looking forward to something all the time.
What do I mean? Well, I am one of these people who loves to dream and I have many BIG ideas, but I sometimes forget where I am. For example, I might have a great goal to improve my financial or career status and sit on the computer for hours at a time writing articles, blogs or designing my many websites – all so I can one day retire young and spend lots of time with my family – only to actually miss my family at the very same time I am doing the work!
Now, I know what you are saying – Brett, everyone has to work, and everyone can’t be in all places at once, thus missing certains events, eg. baby’s first smile. But I would like to suggest a balance and a compromise!
Take all of your goals and then categorise them. For example, I have goals to be more financially stable, to spend more time with my family, and to be healthier. Not one of these goals is more important than the other because they are all from different categories – finances, family, and health. So you must therefore work on all of these goals at the same time. If I added another goal, to be able to squat 200kg in the gym, this would [for me] come under the health category so it is now down to me to prioritise my “get healthier” goal against my “squat 200kg” goal.
Sorry if this is confusing but I hope you get the point – I am trying to say basically, GET SOME BALANCE! If I could sum up all of my goals into one it would be “Get some work-life balance.” This is, I think, what we are all trying to achieve.
So now it is down to me to act upon it. So when my wife asks me to come and look at the baby because she’s doing something funny, I stop writing my article there and then and come back to it later. I don’t tell her “I’ve just got to finish this line, darling.”
Be in the present moment and appreciate where you are and what you have because the moments of life will keep ticking by.
I am trying to capture my present moment awareness by using my new camera often. I also find it really helps my creativity too, thus developing my right-brain.
I’ve also revisited a quote that I particularly like on this subject of finding work-life balance:
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both.”
- James A. Michener.
Good luck in 2009 everyone. And good luck for this very moment
If anyone has any advice or ideas on how I can reach my goals I would be grateful to hear them. And maybe I can help you too!
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