Oh Really! You are spending time? Think again...

                       

                          We tend to think of time as a resource that we spend, just like we spend money.  To complete a one-hour task is to spend an hour on it.  How are youspending your day?  Where do you want to spend your next vacation?  How will you spend the rest of the year?  Time is money, a disposable resource.

This is a silly and inaccurate way to think about time, however.  Time is not a resource.  You cannot spend time.  Time spends itself.  You have no choice in the matter.  No matter what you do, the time is going to pass anyway.  It doesn’t matter if you do one thing or another for the next five years.  Those five years will pass no matter what you do.

                            In reality you are never in the past or future.  You exist only in the present moment.  Even when you remember the past or envision the future, you’re still thinking those thoughts in the present.  All you really have is right now.  And that’s all you ever will have.  You can’t control the passage of time, but you can control your present moment focus.  That’s all.  No past.  No future.  Just right now.


                            First, understand that you can only achieve anything in the present moment, and you can only enjoy those achievements in the present moment.  You can’t achieve anything or enjoy anything in the past or future because you’re never there.  That’s obvious, isn’t it?  But too often people act incongruently with this fact.