Ask yourself how you're doing. How have you progressed in staying focused on what you're doing? Is what you're doing the right thing to be doing? Or are you wasting time doing the urgent or what you're comfortable doing, whilst something more important is put on the long finger? Challenge yourself to do better, today is the only today you have to do better. Your life is lived now. Get the most out of it.
WHEN IS ENOUGH NOT ENOUGH?
What is enough? How do you know that you have enough? How do you even define enough? A number of years ago a prospective client told me that he didn't need to learn how to focus his mind - he was successful enough. This was a couple of months before his business went up in smoke! Many years ago, when I worked in the wonderful world of financial services (now there's an industry with a very particular definition of "enough"), when it came to getting your new company car, many of my colleagues always craved the next model up... regardless of how flash their car would be, they always wanted a little more. And, as I write this, a close friend is grappling with the fact that he may not have much longer to live - he would love "another year or two" - he hasn't had enough.
There's an urban legend that the multi-millionaire (this was when a million was worth something!) Rockefeller, defined enough as wanting "just one more" - like a child in the proverbial sweet shop, what we have is never enough.
This morning, can I suggest that you look at "enough" from the perspective of the real world, real life, real happiness and success that is, in reality, lived moment to moment. The truth is that, regardless of how difficult things might appear to be, you and I have enough for now. As Tony deMello said, despite all the difficulties with which life presents us, the reality is that, right now, all is well... this from a man who was, at the time, teaching mindfulness in an India where there was great poverty.
Happiness is wanting what you have. I'm not, for one moment, saying that we shouldn't strive for more, for greater achievement, happiness and success. But, for now, I am happy. For now, I am complete. For now, all is well, I have enough.
However, to round off these few words with where I started - you can never have enough focus, you never be mindful enough, you can never be present enough. Presence, focus, mindfulness in the reality of the moment that is now, is something we should all challenge ourselves to better - because, when we better our purposeful focus, we'll realise that there's a lot of enough about!