122: Got a Moment?
Wake up.
Sip your coffee or your favorite morning beverage.
Breathe the fresh morning air - preferably outdoors.
Those are priceless moments.
Waking, tasting, breathing, each are something to be grateful for.
The longer you're alive the more meaningful such moments are.
Life is an ongoing series of moments, one stacked on another.
Distractions and mental and emotional clutter pull your attention away from the moment you're in.
Sadly, that's your loss.
Appreciate the moment you're in - because an ordinary moment holds potential for new discoveries you would otherwise miss
The longer I'm alive, the greater my awareness is about the moments I find myself in.
My senses are keener and my reflections are more meaningful.
I'm committed to categorizing my moments so nothing is missed.
Appreciate the present moment
Here and now is all you're guaranteed.
That realization has a way of forcing your appreciation.
But why force an appreciative insight?
The present moment is a gift and everyone, regardless of social or wealth status, gets the same allotment: one moment at time.
You can't bankroll a moment.
You can't click-bait a moment on social media.
Moments aren't bought or gamed.
Moments are experienced, savored, remembered, and certainly appreciated.
But...
You gotta push "pause" on occasion.
You gotta slow down.
You gotta reboot your perspective.
Start with those suggestions and feel the appreciation rising within you.
Embrace the everyday moments
I spend more time than I should living in my own head-space.
Inward thinking can prevent you from truly experiencing the reality going on around you.
Routine or random thoughts can send your mind down rabbit holes of boredom or irrelevance.
Embrace your everyday moments.
Avoid overthinking them - this causes delayed action.
Avoid overdoing them - this creates too much detail to be managed.
Avoid outlining them - this conforms your everyday moments to a formula.
Let your everyday moments run free and unhindered.
Find peace in the transcendent moments
Some of life's moments rise above the noise and chaos.
I call those occasions, transcendent moments.
Such moments transcend what is otherwise experienced as ordinary or mundane.
The western sky can be full of clouds but around the sunset hour, the sun creates a transcendent moment full of color.
A crowded restaurant or bar can appear overwhelming and thick with humanity, but the laughing, eating, and drinking transcends the chaos and reveals the beauty of human connection around good food and good drink.
Transcendent moments should not be so rare that you rarely notice them.
Train yourself to see beyond the surface, to read between the lines of a moment, and find the one thing that lifts that particular moment to another level.
The transcendent element is there if you look close enough.
Momentary awareness requires effort but the energy you invest in the present, everyday, and transcendent moments are worth the effort because there are no guarantees beyond them
Press on...
Eddie