Live in the NOW

Hey gang,

Hope is great.   Dreams are fantastic.   Goal planning and list making is terrific.    All of these things should provide you direction and set your priorities of how to live your life.

BUT – We should live in the NOW.   Because now, right now, is the only time we can control.    Now is here, whether you like it or not.   Right now is here and it is ready for you.  So what will you do with it.

In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. gave his most famous speech.   “I have a dream.”    If you’ve heard of it and maybe seen pieces but never the whole thing, you should check it out.  That speech is very motivating.   But it was just a speech.  Without all the marches and people fighting for their rights for the better part of a decade, small victories day by day that brought us from the times of segregation to now.   I use that as an example.   There are a ton of inspirational speeches, I’d venture to bet that any really great accomplishment started with a dream and some hope, and may be great speech.    The people that heard that speech went out the next day and they fought, and the next day they fought.   5 years later in 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.   Yet his followers continued to fight.

Most of us aren’t fighting for something like civil rights in our day to day lives.  But our fight should be important to us, and we should live in the now.  Every single moment offers an opportunity for success OR disappointment.  Every single moment is a possibility.  It is a challenge and whether you like it or not you have to accept that challenge.  Because all those “nows” will come and they will go.   The question is what will you do with them?  

When you face each of those challenges, possibilities and opportunities and you fight for the now you will more than likely find yourself with 1 of 2 results.   1 – you will succeed.   2 – you will learn something.     They say in the fight game that you learn much more from a loss than you do from a win.   If you view any failures in that light and take something from it to better yourself it really isn’t even a loss.