Life is lived in moments. What you do, each moment, and how you do it creates your reality. You'd better be as present as possible each moment. You need to turn up to your own life.

Now, in this moment, close your eyes and take a few deep, deep breaths. Feel the air course through your nostrils. Feel what it's like to be present. Don't think about it, don't analyse it, just feel it. Be.

Repeat this every hour or so throughout the day.

Consider the opposite to investing your energy in doing what you're doing to get what you want out of life... and you'll simply be considering what you'll see walking or driving down any street or road, any day of the week.

For example, in my travels last week, I noticed how many guys, travelling on holidays with their wives or partners and young children, were totally disengaged from the experience of having a happy family holiday. There they were, shorts and sandals, off for the two or three weeks that everyone's been looking forward to, pacing through the airport, ignorant of the following family, buried in the smart phone. Or, worse, buried in their smart phone, realizing that the family hadn't kept up with them (that one little toddler had fallen over, that the three bags that their partner or wive was lugging around were spilling their contents) shouting instructions - sometimes in business-speak - as to the need to keep up and get to the departure gate on time. The children would be better off playing football on the road, the long-suffering female better off getting her hair done.

I don't apologize for the apparently sexist remark - because it is a gender thing. In the four airports that I was in last week, they were all men who were prancing mindlessly through the departures lounge ahead of a long suffering female. Sorry to be hard on my own sex, but what a bunch of idiots we really can be.

Last week we discussed quantum physics' perspective on reality - that we are energy, in an energetic universe, that how we invest our energy determines the return on our investment.

It's one thing the intellectually understand these scientific facts. It's another thing to actually know it, to have experienced it. The clearer your mind becomes ( free of your normal distractive, self-deprecative or toxic thought), the more focused you become in the present moment (through being totally immersed in fully doing what you're doing on the basis that it is the correct thing to be doing), the closer you will come to experiencing the wonderful truth about reality - that you shape reality for you and those around you - the closer you will come to a complete experience of the truth. Once experienced, even if that experience is fleeting, your perspective on life will never be the same again.

How are you going to get from an intellectual understanding to a real experience of this truth? Of course, you may have experienced it already in a moment of deep flow - we all experience those moments intermittently in our lives, often without knowing what they are, often just hitting a 'natural high'. But, how can you get there deliberately?

If you watch my videos or read this Ezine regularly, you'll know what I'm about to say. Meditation will get you to the truth. Regular meditation stills a busy mind, quietens a noisy mind, clears a cluttered mind. Meditation opens the mind: opens the mind to a fuller experience of the reality of the moment. And that reality doesn't just amount to more fully feeling what it's like to breathe, fully hearing what you've always been missing, fully experiencing your own body. Meditation takes you beyond these coarser experiences towards the experience of reality, towards an altered state of mind. One that knows.

Now, my work with my clients is credited with being wholly practical. And what I've just said sounds a little more 'airy-fairy'. But it's not. It's the most practical thing you'll ever experience. Because, once experienced, you will understand the importance of being present and the importance your presence has for everything you do and for everyone you touch. You will understand the importance of turning up to as many moments of your own life as is humanly possible. You will understand what making every moment count actually means.

As a result, you will compel yourself to push the boundaries of your own mind - boundaries that only exist, in fact, in your own mind. You will up the ante, challenge yourself even more. And, as you rise to that challenge, your life and how you create it will alter beyond all recognition.