Be Present as much as possible

I want you to imagine you have a bank account that only you can access. It’s a checking account that is accepted everywhere. And every day, $86,400 is deposited. No matter what happens, you are going to get that money. The catch is, your account has to be empty by the end of the day. What would you do? How would you maximize your efforts to get the most value from every dollar. Now, what if I told you that this is already happening, and most of us just aren’t taking advantage of it. Only, it’s not dollars we’re given, but seconds. There are 86,400 seconds in a 24 hour period. How we use them is up to us. I was out to dinner with my family the other day. It wasn’t a super nice place, but a step or two above fast food. I looked around, and all five of us were on some sort of electronic device, nose to screen. We might as well have been sitting at five separate tables, eating alone. None of us were present and in the moment. We, as a family, were not maximizing our efforts and our assets to create meaningful moments. It’s not realistic to say that you will live every moment “in the now” and be perfectly present for your partner and/or your kids. But, it’s a fantastic goal to set that we are all more present tomorrow than we were today. Experience the moments as they happen. You will never regret being present. Not for a second.