Tips For the Present - Learn From the Past, Plan For the Future

 By D. P. Robinson | Submitted On December 15, 2009

Everybody is in a rush. A rush to do this or that. To get up in the morning, to make breakfast, to dress, to go to school, to work, to go to the gym. In fact everybody is in a hurry to do many things which means everyone has an enormous amount of activities all day long. We manage to convince ourselves that everything we do is all important - and yet somehow as the day ends we are exhausted and are left with a vague feeling that we did not accomplish everything we set out to do. The reason for this is quite simple. We live in a society that measures success on the basis of accomplishment - and accomplishment is measured on the basis of how much we do or how much we get. 

In turn we have conditioned ourselves to always think of the next move. To accomplish and get more you have to do more, so there is always something else. Another move, another set of actions. This is where the problems start. We focus our thoughts and energy onto the next thing and not on what we are actually supposed to be doing. When we focus on the next step, the next activity or our next action, we forget to concentrate and to live 100% that one thing we are doing in that specific moment in time. Pope John Paul II once said that we should learn from the past, plan for the future, but live the present - or words to that effect. These are words of wisdom that should guide our every moment. There are a few implications here, such as: By learning from the past: you should learn to avoid mistakes and more importantly repeat those things that brought success or triumphant moments. neither dwell nor relive the past. The past is gone - finito, kaput. We must learn to let it go. treasure the good and the bad. Treasure it, not gloat over it or sink with it. 

Plan for the future: set your sights high and aim for the sky. apply yesterdays lessons to plan for tomorrow. your plan will map out the road you must follow. Live the present: every journey starts with one step. Today you will take the steps you must on the road you mapped out for the future. each moment, in other words your continuous present, must be lived will full concentration, with full dedication and passion. If you are with someone else, your child for example, your full focused energy and attention should be 100% dedicated to that person in that moment in time. a focused present, strengthened with the lessons of the past and the target for the future will result in less mistakes or negative results. It will always generate an action motivated from a freer perspective.When you start applying this way of life you will find in the beginning that you are set in your ways so change will not be easy. If, however, you persist for a short while, you will find that it gets easier each time. 3/9/2021 Tips For the Present - Learn From the Past, Plan For the Future https://ezinearticles.com/?Tips-For-the-Present---Learn-From-the-Past,-Plan-For-the-Future&id=3431098 2/2 Then you will be surprised to find that everything gets better; not in a magical sense, after all there are no magical formulas, but in a real sense. 

1. Your day to day activities that are driven by your dedicated and focused attention to what you are doing as you are doing it, will show greater results. These results will go beyond, and this is the important part, beyond achieving things, to achieving wonderful things in terms of your relationship with others. One of the amazing things about people is that when they feel they are important in your eyes - and this will happen as you live the present when your are with them - they will try to give the best of themselves in return. 

2. Your past will begin to be made up of all these "presents" you are living day to day. 

3. Your future turns into your present and then your past, and all under that path with a heart you are taking, today. D.P. Robinson enjoys writing about personal development as well other subjects like interior decorating (including different furniture styles) - a combination that has come about as a result of being a father to five, having three dogs, a rabbit and being very happily married - balancing all these makes life interesting. Visit one of his latest websites located at: [http://www.wickerfurnituresets.org] where he provides information and resources wicker furniture and Wicker Furniture Cushions. 

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