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Today's Reflection

Surely we hit the peak performance zone when we are striving to achieve our goals. Goals, by their very nature, are things that we don't have now - they are in the future. So, why do I place so much emphasis on the present, the here and now?

Our normal minds are constantly focused on the past - what psychologists call our stored knowledge - the things that impressed us during our formative years. Because this is constant and because it happens subconsciously, we are unaware of this constant backward focus. And yet this out-dated navel gazing saps the greater part of our mental energy and, as a consequence, our current behaviour becomes tainted, counter-productive, even self-sabotaging.

We, as normal people, can never do our best whlist looking backwards - yet this is our default state of mind. And, even if we are striving towards the achievement of future goals, the only place and time in which we can do our best is where we are now.

We must stack the cards in our favour because, as things stand, our default mental settings stack teh cards against us. We need to cultivate our natural ability to focus on what is real in this moment and what is opportune in this moment. Only then will we come to realise what is a concoction of our warped normal minds.

In cultivating our ability for presence, we are not seeking some guru-like other-worldly state of mind - there is no practicallity in wandering around in a fog of peace and love. We are seeking to do the job in hand, to take on more responsibility for our lives and do just what needs to be done to the very best of our abnormal ability.

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