Illusions of the Present Hour

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Are you under the illusions that the present hour is not critical? We have a twisted sense of time and sometimes we really value time and sometimes we just waste our time, causally and without thought.

Do you view every hour as critical? Why not? Tomorrow is promised to no one, so we need to view every hour as critical...to us. How often do you just blow off and hour or two and use the excuse that you needed to veg. I know that I have. The challenge is to continue to be productive!

Now, I understand that sometimes we DO need to veg, to relax and catch our breaths. The key is to not make it a habit. Work all day, come home and plop in front of the tv or your computer and waste your precious time. Stop doing that!!

Action:
Today, when you get to do something, decide if you are investing your time or spending/wasting it. The key is to always be investing your time.

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”

Abundance, Lack and Gratefulness

"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth." ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously and it is up to us to choose which we will focus on. We have been spoiled by our society so much that we concentrate more on what we don’t have than be grateful for what we do have. The TV constantly is showing us all the things that we don’t have and says “you need this!” Telling us that you have to keep up with the neighbors, your friends, everyone.

Are you truly grateful for what you have? Sure, I can hear you now, ‘yes, I’m grateful,” but are you really. When was the last time you said “I’m grateful for everything that I have?” See, we are grateful for the good things, but not the bad things. What about that? Shakespeare said that “there is no good or bad, only what we assign to it.” It is when you are grateful for everything that “the wasteland of illusion falls away.”

Here’s a challenge for today…Be grateful for EVERYTHING that happens to you. Everything. You can choose to focus on abundance or lack. It’s your choice!

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth."