Wherever You Are, Be There

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 until we learn to be there, we will never
master the art of living well.