Read this morning's article - below - and don't settle for ordinary. Don't let your life pass you by. Open your mind - through meditation - to the reality of the moment and let reality take you on a wonderful roller-coaster ride.

We live in a world where, when we want things, we want them now - whether that's an unreasonable expectation that our email will be replied to within an unreasonably short amount of time or exploding our credit card because some unnecessary trinket took our fancy and we must have it now! Modern technology and consumerism combine - as one would expect them to - to facilitate us when, to use the immortal words of Freddie Mercury: "I want it all and I want it now"!

Therefore, when I ask questions, like my enquiry in today's video as to how you're progressing on the "mindfulness journey", I am often confronted with frustration and impatience - a bit like a bold child who screams that his new toy isn't working - only to discover that he's not using it the right way.

As normal adults, we're not used to using our head the right way - we've had a whole adult lifetime's experience of using it the wrong way. It takes time, discipline and commitment to cajole your head into working for you instead of against you and, unlike any toy that I know of on the market, even when you commit to doing the necessary to getting your head working for you, it will keep trying to go back to working against you... you have, in other words, something of a battle on your hands.

Hence the frustration, hence the impatience - and the extent to which people often find it more comfortable (although the normal comfort zone is actually relatively uncomfortable) to throw in the towel and settle for ordinary. Very often, when I meet a client months or sometimes years after he or she had first become overjoyed with the revelation that he or she could use his or her mind in an extraordinary way, they've "relaxed" back into ordinary, whilst knowing full well that they are short-changing themselves.

Short-changing is an understatement - if you know that there are certain simple, albeit repeated, steps that you need to take to use your mind extraordinarily and don't bother, you've willingly let your life pass you by: someone has told you that you can, indeed, have it all and you've decided to say "No"!

I want to make two important points. Firstly, there comes a time when you suddenly discover that you have it all - that time arrives, not through forcing it or becoming impatient as to why it hasn't happened yet, but through meditating every day. One day, you'll meditate and you'll have an "Aha Moment" that will mean your life will never be the same. This isn't because you've had some revelation - it's simply the cumulative effect of every day's meditation on your brain's prefrontal cortex - sooner or later it clicks into action and, with a little practice, actually restructures itself so "extraordinary" becomes your new "ordinary".

My second important point? You can have it all and you can have it now - open your eyes and you'll realize that, as sure as you're reading these words, it is a fact of life... now.