Rewind...

Nowadays the gadgets we use all seem to have a rewind button. Online and lose your web site? Hit the 'back button' Watching TV and miss something? Hit rewind on the DVR or Tivo. Even Microsoft programs have a button where you can 'undo' what you just did. I'm so used to rewinding that it seems I should be able to do it all the time.

But real life has no rewinds. The words we say we can't take back. The opportunities we miss may not come our way again. The people who we fail to stay in touch with may not be around when we want or need them to be.

So what to do?

Make the most we can out of every opportunity we can manage. Oprah's book club selection "The New Earth" says we only have the present and that's certainly true. Living in the present moment - rather than wishing we had what was in the past or always wishing some future event was already here - does provide the most immediate enjoyment. It's not an easy thing to do for most of us who are in a programmed unconscious state a good deal of the time. We miss what's going on and wish we could rewind...to get back the days, the events, the memories we missed.

But like all other strategies...it can be learned and really can bring an enhanced level to life. So I hope you're enjoying and learning something this present moment that you're reading this...but just in case you missed something here...in this case, you can 'rewind' and go back and read it later. That's what archives are for (you'l find them by scrolling down the right side of this blog)

Have a wonderful week!