Happy Monday! I'm back from a fantastic girls weekend in Atlanta where I got to spend some quality time with my best friend and soul sister. That kind of girl time, full of laughs, 80's playlists, good food and real talk, is food for my soul. I hope your weekend was just as splendid.
Today's Monday Mantra is all about one simple question: How's your now?
Like, right now. This very moment. Right here and now.
As a list maker and relatively organized person, my life is often based upon making plans for the upcoming week or month ahead and managing my future time to accommodate my very full life. That's a good thing, but sometimes I can delve too far into what's happening tomorrow or the next day and forget about the right now.
My magnifying mind begins to wrestle with the particulars of upcoming events and then the real swirling and twirling begins. Before I know it, I'm predicting the future and fretting about events that have yet to happen. Has this ever happened to you?
Take for example, my upcoming nuptials. There is necessary planning that needs to happen, of course, and then there's the lying awake at night running over the details when there is absolutely nothing that can be done in that moment but fret.
I read a quote once: "Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere."
So, how do you combat the nasty fretting and predicting that is bound to happen? I check myself by asking the question, "How's my now?" which refers to where my feet are planted this instant. How am I in this singular moment?
Right now, I have a full belly because I just ate lunch. I have warm socks on and and a clean house. I have a loving partner in the next room and gas in my car. Right now, everything is just fine. Right now, I have nothing to worry about. Right now, there is no trouble.
Sometimes I have to look at my feet and take stock of the goodness in that one moment. Maybe it's a cool breeze that blows in my direction or the hint of sunshine that peeks out from behind a cloud for a second. Maybe it's the fact that I can take a deep breath and pause before returning to my daily tasks.
Asking myself this question helps to ground me in the present and brings my attention back to the only place where life is truly lived; right here, right now.
So? How's your now?
Today's Monday Mantra is all about one simple question: How's your now?
Like, right now. This very moment. Right here and now.
As a list maker and relatively organized person, my life is often based upon making plans for the upcoming week or month ahead and managing my future time to accommodate my very full life. That's a good thing, but sometimes I can delve too far into what's happening tomorrow or the next day and forget about the right now.
My magnifying mind begins to wrestle with the particulars of upcoming events and then the real swirling and twirling begins. Before I know it, I'm predicting the future and fretting about events that have yet to happen. Has this ever happened to you?
Take for example, my upcoming nuptials. There is necessary planning that needs to happen, of course, and then there's the lying awake at night running over the details when there is absolutely nothing that can be done in that moment but fret.
I read a quote once: "Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere."
So, how do you combat the nasty fretting and predicting that is bound to happen? I check myself by asking the question, "How's my now?" which refers to where my feet are planted this instant. How am I in this singular moment?
Right now, I have a full belly because I just ate lunch. I have warm socks on and and a clean house. I have a loving partner in the next room and gas in my car. Right now, everything is just fine. Right now, I have nothing to worry about. Right now, there is no trouble.
Sometimes I have to look at my feet and take stock of the goodness in that one moment. Maybe it's a cool breeze that blows in my direction or the hint of sunshine that peeks out from behind a cloud for a second. Maybe it's the fact that I can take a deep breath and pause before returning to my daily tasks.
Asking myself this question helps to ground me in the present and brings my attention back to the only place where life is truly lived; right here, right now.
So? How's your now?
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