If you died tonight, what you regret not having done? If you haven't done it, or have done nothing about doing it - and it's that important - why don't you do something about it now? There's no time like the present.

The psychologist, Jon Kabat-Zin, has recently written that, whereas he thought twenty years ago that a latent movement towards mindfulness would create a better world, the potential for greater mindfulness is now being undone by the extent to which we have become divorced from the here and now by all manner of mobile device.

Recently, on holiday, I sat down to dinner beside a family of five who did not utter a single word to each other throughout a five course meal - other than to ask for the pepper, salt, water or wine. They might as well have kept their money and spent a week at home - how would they notice the difference?

You and I, I'm sure, are also aware of the extent to which many organizations are now grappling with the extent to which very senior people turn up for meetings physically, whilst their minds are firmly stuck in cyberspace - these grown-ups have to be told to put their toys down and pay attention!

Techology is wonderful. Were it not for technology, I wouldn't be sitting in the Alps writing this. But, when history is written, will the Steve Jobs of this world be cast as heroes or villains?

There are only so many ways that you can say that, if you grab a hold of your state of mind, your reality will change for the better. That's why, from time to time, I'm accused of repeating myself. But what I have to say bears repeating - or, at least, needs to be repeated until we all do the necessary and start doing the necessary again if we've stopped doing it.

The necessary? Constantly and consistently training your mind to pay attention to the reality of the moment. This requires discipline and, bizarrely, sometimes those who have experienced huge tangible benefit from being attentive and focused still drift back towards ordinary mindless behaviour. Why? Because most of the people we encounter in daily life behave mindlessly. This is not me being judgemental - this is a statement of scientific fact.

It is the easiest thing in the world to be mindless. By being mindless, I can be part of the herd - and there is safety in numbers. By being mindless, I can continue to be accepted by all those fickle friends who don't give a toss about me - what if I was cast out by the herd? Our predisposition to sticking with the herd is an evolutionary left-over that is doing us harm in the 21st century... because the herd is mindless.

So, you're faced with a choice. You can live your life - and run with the possibility that some people, who really don't care, will think you're some kind of alternative weirdo - or you can take up space on this planet - because being mindless ain't living. This choice isn't a big one-off. It's a choice that you need to make, again and again, moment to moment. It's a choice that's put before you every time you breathe in and out. It's a choice that, if you don't take it, will simply produce more of the same. If you're content with that, that's your own funeral! If you want a bloody great life, you'd better start living.