Get out in the fresh air - or, at least, the outdoors! Stroll. Notice what you see, how you feel - emotionally and bodily - what you hear, one sound at a time, what you smell and taste. Come to your senses. Our daily lives provide us with multiple opportunities to meditate on the move... use them for, everytime you take an opportunity to develop your experience of the present moment, you enhance your own presence of mind and focus. And that really matters.

• Purposefully focus - it doesn't come naturally, we're actually "wired" to not focus
• Set goals in a way that energizes your subconscious into focused effortless action
• Make your very best decisions and solve problems with ease - your brain can do this effortlessly
• Banish stress - we're ordinarily "wired" to be stressed

All too often, we see what's going on through the lense of predictability. Indeed, our minds are structured in a way to make our lives predictable. And, whilst that might smooth our way through a normal day, who wants just another normal day? Surely your days should be abnormal, extraordinary!

Meditation enables us sideline the lenses and filters through which we normally perceive reality. They are constructed from our resident thoughts and, therefore, are immutable. As such, even new people, events or experiences are rendered predictable and that means we miss life's opportunities or, for the all too many normal people who repeatedly behave in a patterned way, we keep missing the same pitfalls and end up being our own worst enemy.

If you're not meditating regularly, you're missing your life. Instead, you are repeatedly re-experiencing the predictable and patterned life that merges from one day to the next into a numb divorce from real reality - but it's OK, nobody gets too badly hurt and what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

WRONG! We end up being so resilient that we put up with that we shouldn't. And, what's worse, our daily lives do slowly kill us - whether it is actual premature death as a result of stress (there are established links between low-level everyday background stress and both cardiac disease and cancer and premature death) - or just a psychological death borne from not experiencing life. The phrase "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" simply does not apply!

So, stop killing yourself - not by 1,000 cuts but by 70,000 thoughts - and start living. Meditate. Wake up to now - it's the only time and place you have.