With the very best will in the world, it would be an extraordinary person, a liar or a fool, who could say that they are 100% focused, 100% present and living life 100% at this moment in time.

So, take ten minutes - watch today's video - it's less than four minutes long. And then read Today's Reflection below.

And see what's what!

Normal lives and repetitive and mundane. Normal people only rarely experience "peak performance" moments - when something so "out of the ordinary" happens them that it demands them to pay more than a normal amount of attention. Psychologists call that "flow". But we can choose to be in "flow". We can choose, ourselves, to pay an abnormal amount of attention to the present moment and, in doing so, begin to live and abnormally successful life.

I prefer the French word to its English equivelent "why" - because it is far more insightful and thought-provoking. If one were to translate pourquoi directly, it would mean for what. If you were to ask yourself that question regularly, you might begin to understand the significance of living your life in a clear and focused way.

As I approach the seventeenth anniversary of starting doing what I now do, I have come to the conclusion that I know loads of people who cannot answer this question. Perhaps they never could. Or, more normally, perhaps they could at one stage - but it's just that they've forgotten.

Do you know, with the certainty that passion brings, why you got out of bed this morning? If you don't, why did you bother? What is it for? If you look back over the last hour or two and ask What For? can you be sure that you'll have been doing the things that matter (assuming you know what matters!)?

The routine of everyday life, the difficulties currently experienced by many in the course of everyday life, tend to be what draws our attention. Experience enough of routine, day in, day out, long enough and it's quite reasonable for us to admit to ourselves what we've forgotten, or lost sight of, what for. Quite reasonable, but not good enough.

How awful would it be to waste the very opportunity of living life to a fuller extent that today brings? That this moment brings. How awful would it be to suddenly find yourself at a place in life where you realize that you never did the things that might have made a difference? How awful if, in the process, a little bit of that inertia and apathy rubbed off on the people who mean a lot to you?

So stop and ask yourself... What For? Why did I get out of bed this morning? Why have I done what I've done so far today? Why have I not done what I should have done so far today?

And then, when you know what for, restart your day (restart your life) that bit more focused.