Each days I am amazed as I participate in the world the gems that show up in my perception. I am a tennis junkie having been so involved in tennis earlier in my life. I'm watching the Miami Open tennis tournament, I was watching an interview with one of my favorite players who has been around for a long time.
His name is Grigor Dimitrov; he is a 33-year old Bulgarian player who has been ranked as high as number 3 in the world. He won a tough match today thus the interview. Suddenly I realized he was sharing Eckhart Tolle type thoughts about being fully present. Then out of nowhere he said, "The bill for regret is very expensive." I love the simplicity and yet at the same time the depth of this sentence. It speaks to the truth that it is so easy to live our life in regret.
I have friends who live life and then spend much of their time regretting steps they have taken earlier in life. I am of the belief that there are three parts of our life - the past, the present, and the future can get so interwoven and muck everything together so there is no clarity.
It is so easy to get caught up in living in the past. The steps we have taken are done and we can't go back and make changes because the decisions have been made. Yet in our minds, how often do we get locked into "If I had done something different" it would have been different.
The now is where we are living - this very moment. We can work very hard to avoid this now but is is really all we have. Once we understand the concept of the power of now then it changes everything.
When you listen to a professional atrhlete talking about a future event they are really clear they only work with details that they have control over. The rest is about acceptance and the flow of details generated from others.s The top pros will mention that they take future events as just another event to be approached with the same intention. Thus they do not get caught up in the future and place a lot of extra pressure on the next event. It is the balance of working in the now.\
How easy is that? It means that right now the decision I make is made in the now. It gives me the opportunity if a decision might be a mistake to know I can choose again. Then I can choose again. Then choose again.
We do have the experience of the past built into who we are and this provides foundation for the now decisions. The future are the open possibilites and the truth that coming ahead are limitless options and every door ahead is open with the ability to walk through. Most of the time our limiting the future occurs in our hands and are not generated by others.
We are our most limiting choices in our life. Choose anything because anything is open to us. We have the ability to be anything we want going in our direction for again we have the best partner in the world.
So balance each day to that when it comes time to choose we can choose from a place of being in the now with the experiences of the post and the limitless possibilities of the future. How exciting can it be! Are you living in the now? Just do it!
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