How to Live In the Present - Learning to Enjoy Right Now

It can be so easy to miss really great moments happening right now because we are so caught up in what we need to do for the future or what has happened in the past. Living in the present can help us slow down & allow us to be more open-minded to new & different opportunities.

Show Notes:

Are you often thinking about what you could have done or should have done or wish you knew in regards to something that happened in the past? If you are, I encourage you to realize that this is a fruitless activity. This is perfectly ok to do RIGHT AFTER the event/situation that has happened. You can take the time to reflect on what happened & what you can learn from this experience, but take those lessons & let it go. Move on from it & don’t allow it to be a chokehold on your life. We LITERALLY cannot change the past. Like, we cannot. It’s impossible. So continuing to bring it up will only be you inflicting pain on yourself with no benefit or purpose.

But maybe you’re dwelling on the past because someone in your life continues to bring it up. Sometimes we have a hard time letting things go when we were hurt or something didn’t work out in the way you desired, so if someone else contributed to those things happening, we might keep bringing it up because we haven’t taken the time to heal from that experience & understand what it meant to us & why we responded the way we did. And this can cause hurt to the other people involved because you’re bringing it up & allowing that wound to be exposed again, rather than heal. Even if the other people involved don’t feel as bad about what happened as you do, you still need to let it go & move on. Staying in that mindset will not make anything better or different.

As far as the future, most of the time thinking about the future is super exciting. It’s the thing that can boost motivation in whatever we are doing & working on, while also providing hope to life-changing, evolving & becoming better when we finally have those future moments realized. But this can also pull you away from seeing the silver lining in what’s going on in your life right now & the opportunities you could have if you take your eyes off what’s ahead. What’s ahead could change for the better, but you’ll never know that because you are too focused & attached to that version & vision of your life you’re currently chasing.

You could also be attached to the future because you need a distraction from what’s currently happening in your life. Or it’s the perfectionist coming out that needs to always be planning for how to excel in the future, always trying to one-up yourself. Regardless of the reason, it’s important to know that everything doesn’t need to be about the future for your life to be good.

Let’s dive into the tips on How to Live in the Present:

1. Don’t Overly Multitask 
2. Accept What’s Happening Now, Not How You Want it to Be
3. Practice Gratitude on the Regular
4. Forgive Others & Let Go of Grudges
5. Don’t Get Stuck in How Life Used to Be 
6. Don’t Be in a Rush or Anxious About Time 
7. Work On Control Issues 

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