How to Live in the Present

If you are not at peace, you are definitely now living in the present.

How can you transition the way you live from the past to present or from the future to the present? 

But why do we even live in the past or future?

Past: You regret the way you live before. You kept on replaying the things that are already done where you can’t change anything at all.

You think all of the fails, mistakes and unpleasant things that happen which only brings you the thoughts of “ I wish I can go back in time and change what happened”

Wake up. That is not gonna happen unless you invent a time machine.

How to get out from the past?

Acceptance. Accept that what happened in the past is all gone now. It already happened and you can’t do anything about it anymore. You have to accept it, learn from it, and move on.

The past is a lesson that we must learn from. You can’t keep replaying the scenarios and hope that you should have done better.

You don’t have to forget it. You just have to learn from it. It seems obvious, but not many people are actually learning from their mistakes.

Easier said than done, I know. But that is the only way to get out from that past and start living in the future.

 How to start living in the present and not the future.

We fear of what will happen in the future. We think of the things that could go wrong, the things that might not work out. But just like the past, future is something that is out of our control. You can’t speed up time and take a peek of what will happen next.

For me, taking a look in the future is not an exciting thing to do.

Some people might want to take a look of what will happen to them. Are they going to reach their goals in the future? They wanna find out who they married in the future. They wanna learn the lottery ticket combinations so that they can definitely win. When they are going to die.

It is boring to know what will happen to you in the future.

No thrill if you already know.

But how can you live in the present and not the future?

You gotta understand clearly we cannot control what will happen in the future. However we can make it work in our favor by doing the things that we have a control over.

For example: You might want to be a successful business man in the future, want to earn X amount of money.

You can’t tell when are you going to be successful in business or what business is great in the future. But you can do is learn how you can run a successful business by reading books, learn from other businessman, networking with people that achieve what you wanted. You can research what kind of business is profitable for the next X years that AI cannot simply take away.

That is all for today

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