This is the most powerful word that should guide your life everyday.
When the pain of the past haunts you or when the fear of the future comes to you, shake them off, close your eyes and say: “NOW.”
It’s almost like a forceful mantra that brings you back to reality, the only real thing there is — the present moment.
The past is gone, the future is yet to happen and you don’t hold them in your hands. Dwelling or focusing on what has happened or what is yet to happen just wastes the possibility of the present moment.
The only thing you can ever hold in your hands is the present moment.
The only thing you can ever do is make something happen now.
Whenever the tough times hit or when you find yourself in a challenging situation, keep in mind the three choices that you have (and this means, you always have a choice in everything):
- get out of the situation
- change the situation
- or accept the situation for what it is.
Realize that the main cause of your pain is resistance to what is.
Remember that when you fight life, you always end up losing.
Of course, it’s always easier to be in pain, to cry and feel sorry for yourself for all the things that happened in the past.
It’s even easier to get engrossed in dreams of things that you want to happen in some far – off time you are not sure when.
Either way, you are trapped and nothing changes.
It maybe hard to change a situation and even harder to get out of it.
It feels like change takes so much effort than dwelling or dreaming.
More than that, it demands that you get out of your comfort zone, maybe even dare you to do something you’ve never done before or face the possibility of getting hurt.
It may also feel like the hardest thing to do would have to be to accept.
You may think that accepting, in a way, feels like surrender or defeat.
And your ego never likes to be defeated.
It always has to be right. It always has to win.
But when you decide to accept all the things that had happened in your life and you surrendered to what is happening now, you realize that you have not lost. You have won over your pain.
With acceptance, you gained peace.
You became at peace with yourself.
With acceptance, you gained understanding.
You began to see your life situation in another perspective.
With acceptance, you gained faith.
You believe that everything is as it should be.
Everyday, try to focus yourself in the now, change the things you can change and accept those that you can’t.
Tempting as it is, try not to dream of some remote fulfillment in the future. Remind yourself that there’s no point in being happy someday.
Instead choose to be happy today.
Yes, happiness is a choice.
When you look for happiness now, when you gratefully accept every moment, you’ll see life for what it truly is…
A present.
I’m Jayme and this blog is about creating the life you want through journaling, creative visualization and the Law of Attraction. Thank you for stopping by. If you feel inspired, feel free to leave a comment or 
