BE THERE

This was emailed to me by a friend. It's a really nice essay.

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WHEREVER YOU ARE, BE THERE
by Jim Rohn

One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being. While we are home, our thoughts are still absorbed with solving the challenges we face at the office. And when we are at the office, we find ourselves worrying about problems at home. We go through the day without really listening to what others are saying to us. We may be hearing the words, but we aren't absorbing the message.

As we go through the day we find ourselves focusing on past experiences or future possibilities. We are so involved in yesterday and tomorrow that we never even notice that today is slipping by. We go through the day rather than getting something from the day. We are everywhere at any given moment in time except
living in that moment in time.

Lifestyle is learning to be wherever you are. It is developing a unique focus on the current moment, and drawing from it all of the substance and wealth of experience and emotions that it has to offer. Lifestyle is taking time to watch a sunset. Lifestyle is listening to silence. Lifestyle is capturing each moment so that it becomes a new part of what we are and of what we are in the process of becoming.

Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And untilwe learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.
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As my friend said, it really hits home. It's like the essay was written for ME. It's like the writer is speaking to ME. I am guilty of everything that he said. What struck me the most is this line: "We are so involved in yesterday and tomorrow that we never even notice that today is slipping by." We are so caught up in so many things that we forget to simply LIVE. We forget to be happy and content. We dwell on what has happened on the past, on our mistakes, on what people have done to us. We worry about the things that we don't have yet, on the things that might happen.

I think a day would be beautiful if we just looked out the window and thanked God for everything.