The Bi-Weekly Ezine from Gurdy.Net

Issue No: 220 - September 5, 2011

Today's Quick Tip

How can you be so sure that what you're focused on right now is the right thing to be doing? Stop and remind yourself of your key priorities in life. Is what you've been doing for the last few minutes (or, God help us, hours!) directly related to what you want out of life? What you do next is up to you...

Today's Personal Development Video

Today's Reflection

FOCUS ON FOCUS - PART 9: MORE FOCUS TRAINING

HOW ARE YOU GOING TO USE TODAY'S NOWS

Starting your day with a little mental training is, obviously, better than not bothering at all! However, with the best will in the world, a mind focused at 8.00am will be all over the place a couple of hours later - it's the way we are. So, we need to use the 'props' that our daily lives provide us with to regularly and constantly re-focus our minds. The detail routine of your daily life is both a curse and a blessing - a curse because, when we are habituated we are unfocused. A blessing because it provides us with endless opportunities for being focused. It's up to you.

Life is made up of distinct moments in time. Yes, each next now flows from the last. But, on the basis that we, our world and everything in our universe is in a constant state or perpetual motion, is constantly recreating itself, we too can recreate our lives and our selves - moment to moment.

Where you are in life right now - for better or for worse - is the result of every little twist and turn you've taken in life's fast-flowing stream - in each now along the way. There's no point in wondering 'what if', no merit in regret and, indeed, nothing to be gained from dwelling on past glories.

All you have is now. The past is nows long gone from which, I hope, you've learned. The future is nows that may or may not come. It's vital that you use today's nows to the very best of your enormous ability.

How will you profit from today's nows? Simply by turning up!

Watch the entire series of Focus-on-Focus on YouTube.com

This Week's Recommendation

Personal Development Article

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM CARNEGIEWAY

As you might remember, I've given up on recommending anything that doesn't directly lead to concrete doing - doing things that get and keep you focused in a practical way. However, I have something today that is both practical and very much in-your-face - something that will constantly remind you to stay or get focused. A fellow Ezine reader has just launched the CarnegieWay. What is it? Well, many of you regularly ask me for inspirational quotes - this little gadget constantly pesters you with just such quotes! Get all the details at CarnegieWay.com

WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO LIVE IN THE HERE AND NOW?

by Willie Horton

Are there benefits to living in "The Now" as described by Ekhart Tolle? Or would we be better off living our normal lives where we sometimes reminisce about the past or look forward to the future? Well, if you're not focused in the present moment, how will you be able to do your very best? Will universal energy bother to respond (as quantum physics proves it does) if you don't bother to turn up? The only time and place to live is here and now. Read the full article...

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