Live in the Present

You exist in now and as much as we all like to believe that we have control over the future which to some extent is true but let’s be clear on this that something what’s in future would happen sometime later (now we have a good hold of the obvious) and the other thing which we find ourselves so caught up with is the past viz something that has happened in the past (in case you didn’t knew that already). Where we actually do have a lot of control is that brief moment which we call the present, why I call it brief? I do call it brief because it’s passing by you just now as you’re reading this blog or when you’re doing anything else and especially when we are procrastinating.

It’s it very sad and funny at the same time to see that people get caught up so much in the past or the future that they actually don’t focus on the only time that matters the most.

We are so busy in our lives thinking about what we did wrong in the past or what might get wrong in the coming future but where we lack attention is that the things which we’re doing right now will determine how the coming events might shape up to be.

In my opinion what kills most of our opportunities of anything better in the future is procrastination (remember the things you tell yourself to not to do the task in hand and maneuver your way around that activity and doing every other bullshit stuff), now what happens when we do it is we lose the chance to make a change and do any good to our lives.

What I believe instead is to go through the important activity first and then do any other thing for example if you have to go to the gym just go there. You need to understand that what’s stopping you from doing the work is you yourself only (and of course a whole lot of miscellaneous things).

Here I would introduce to the other thing that hampers your chances to do anything and that is overthinking. Overthinking is when you get so engrossed into trying to make that activity as perfectly done as possible that you don’t ever get to do it, because you’re just thinking about how it should be done and not freaking doing it.

Let’s take the same example (of the going to the gym). In that case a lot of people get caught upon what’s their weight at, how much protein they should take, which multi-vitamins to get, which days to train and what brand of wrist straps to buy. Now if you see that John Doe only wanted to go to the gym but when he’s thinking about all these before even actually going to the place he has not done anything in present and just thought about it (it may even burn some calories but not compared to as much he’d have burned if he’d step into the gym).

So what I would suggest that instead of trying to know everything beforehand and then not actually doing the thing why don’t you do it and figure out the minor details in process.