Learn from the past, plan for the future, but live in the present.
I just finished reading a book named: The Present by Spencer Johnson. It is such an easy book that I finished reading it in three hours. But I feel that I did learned a lot from it. Here is my grasp from it:
1. Living in the Present:
-The Present is not the past and it is not the future. The present is the present moment. The present is NOW!
-Even in the most difficult situation, when you focus on what is right, in the present moment, it makes you happier and give you the needed energy and confidence to deal with what is wrong today!
-Being in the present means, turning on distractions. And paying attention to what is important, NOW! You create your own present by what you give your attention to today!
2. Learn from the past:
- It is hard to let go of the pastif you have not learn from the past.
-As soon as your learn and let go, your improve the present.
- Anytime you are unhappy in the present or feeling less successful, it is time to learn from the past or plan for the future.
-Look at what happen in the past, learn from something valuable from it, use what you learn to Improve the present.
-You can not change the past, but you can learn from it. When the same situation arises, you can do things differently and enjoy a happier and more successful present.
3. Planning for the future.
- No one can predict or control the future. However, the more you plan for what you want to see happen, the less anxious you are in the present. And the more the future is known to you!
- Beginning today, picture what a wonderful future would look like.
-Create a realistic plan to help it happen and put your plan into action in the present.
4. what is your life purpose?
- How you respond depends upon your purpose.
-When you live and work with purpose, and respond to what is important now, you are more able to lead, manage, support, befriend and love!
-Success is becoming who you are capable of being, and progressign toward worthwhile goals.
-Each of us definie for ourselves what it means to be more successful.
In a nutshell:
Be in the present
–When you want to be happier and more successful.
–Focus on what is right now
–Respond to what is important now.
Learn from the past:
–When you want to make the present better than the past
–Look at what happened in the past.
–Learn something valuable from it.
–Do things differently in the present.
Plan for the future:
–When you want to make the future better than the present.
–What what a wonderful future would look like.
–Make plan to help it happen.
–Put your plan into action in the present.
-When you want to be happier and more successful, it is time to be in the present moment.
-When you want the present to be better than the past, it is time to learn from the past.
-When you want the future to be better than the present, it is time to plan for the future.
The best metaphor here is to evolve the moment’s living like composing or performing better music, which is “The Art of Time”.
The melody does bridge this present moment so wonderfully with the past, and spread our love into the future in waves. But for moving our soul, even the animal’s and plant’s — to a loftier state — the only secret is: music emulates our inherent rhyme first, echoes our heartbeat, whispers with our breath, harmonizes our mind, body & soul into a harmonious state architecture — most time temporary.
Anyhow the music — the time creature crystallize elegantly into a space architecture — your trinity. Someone may think joyful state for hours after listening music is not long enough, how about an incentive tune grows from only one minute but lasts utmost a whole lifetime?
So, how to convert a mechanic, scientific planning of time for past, present and future into an art, verbally a symphony of life? Mind your heartbeat and rhyme!
Your heartbeat, the ups are what you love, do harmonize them with the downs — may be also with silence, stop, pause and yield. But sometimes you speed up a century’s hesitation into one seconds’ outburst — that’s definitely about the composer’s power, having nothing to do with a theory like Abstractionism or any science.
The empowering art does cast the watery dynamics of management into dance to admirer’s eyes, song to singers’ vocal-cord. Though sometimes no shiver in time-to-space conversion but you still feel the might in those pure time-scale conversions: 1. Living Everyday as my last day; 2. Living everyday as a whole life, wakening new-born and sleeping to next total new-born life; 3. Mapping whole life history on earth — which is 3.5 billion years — into one year, and you can race with China’s civilization in evolution under 50 seconds, that’s short but horny stimulant under every one minute.
Subconsciousness, having special ears and eyes, preferring prayers or arts, no matter collective or not, is also called “God” by some motivators or coaches creating great taste in sand-witch of past, present and future. Pardon me if you don’t like this.