Time, Focus, Life…

I’ve been labeled the “task master”, extremely efficient, able to accomplish a lot with ease. I focus and practice staying present in each moment.

When we tap into our sense of autonomy, we gain control of our time. Even when we trade a certain amount of our time for money (aka – work). We can pull ourselves out of the rat-race, the hamster wheel of business. We can pause the hectic button at any time, and move from mindlessness, where things are happening to us, to mindfulness, where we have choice.

Meditation practice allows for an experience of time slowing. Take a few minutes to pay attention to your breath, self-regulate, and move through the day in greater dialogue with what matters to you. Choose how to invest your time, spend your time, and let go of what’s not worth your time.

Make good choices about what you value the most and direct your attention to those things. Put energy there, and be right there – fully. Being in the now with this activity – even if it’s reading, running an errand, talking with a colleague. Think to yourself, of all the things I could do, this is the thing I am doing, and I’m fully present for it. Don’t spend time regretting all the things you are not doing. Be fully present for what you’ve chosen. You can at any point stop this activity, and do something different, again fully present.

When we live life in the present moment, time slows down. We can respond with greater care to the exact precise moment, with the people involved at that point in time.

When it seems my schedule is just happening to me, it’s the perfect opportunity to take a pause and come back to this precise moment.

There are constraints: we have to be at work at a certain time, in meetings at certain times, but we generally take a passive approach to having life do us rather than us doing our lives. Don’t be at the end life wishing you spent your time in different ways. We must ask ourselves what our values are, because we can’t prioritize without knowing what’s important to us. Don’t have a vague sense of what’s important; be very clear, and it will be much easier to prioritize. Stay true to what’s important – it will keep you healthier. If it’s most important to be there for family, you’ll never be late for your family. When we are taking action in alignment with our values, there’s never friction.

It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you are laser focused in this present moment.

Posted by AmyJ