#201: Be present to change now

Change is difficult if you are not present. Consider this: Most of us live in any time zone except the present moment.

Why? Because of guilt and fear. We fill today with remorse for a yesterday that should have been different and clutter the present with dreams of a better tomorrow. And so we suffocate the life out of the moment.

Guilt keeps us remorseful about the past. Fear keeps us doubtful about the future. Together they keep us absent from the here-and-now. Together they trick us into playing what-should, what-might and what-if games.

We forget that the past and the future do not exist right now. It is simply our guilt and our fear which trap us in a time that does not exist.

Perceived change happens in the past or the future, but actual change happens in the moment. Change is easier if you are present... by being free of guilt and fear in the moment of change.


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