This Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive: Right Now
Not in the past, neither the future, nor the last hour. Now.
This is all you will ever really have a grip on(all at once), in your whole life.
You can’t change the past. Neither does worrying change a future outcome.
But changing what you do now affects the future.
If you ever come to peace with the present and embrace it fully — because its really all you’ve got — everything suddenly starts to shift.
Your dream life, aspirations and future goals are not actually achieved in the future.
They’re achieved now.
What you start doing today — not tomorrow — determines what the future eventually becomes.
If you want to quit smoking by the end of this year, you don’t quit in November, not even in December.
You start now.
Obviously you may fail by the end of the week and find yourself back in the vice. Then quit again, and still fall back into the vice by the end of April.
But you keep trying and fighting against the vice every day.
Eventually by December, you will have fully managed to quit smoking for good.
The question arises: when exactly did you quit smoking?
Definitely not in December but somewhere along the process, in your daily routine.
The daily process — what you do in the background, on a daily basis — is what made the difference.
Not a one-time decision deferred to some future moment.
The difference isn’t made tomorrow, not when you have finally achieved that goal.
It’s made here in the now.
When everyone decides to be doomscrolling on social media, you are reading.
While they are partying, you are grinding.
While others chase distraction after distraction, you are trying to get done with the project.
This everyday process makes the difference.
And so where is the difference between mediocres and successful people?
It’s in the everyday process.
How you spend your boredom, what you do when there is no one watching.
This, my friend, is what really matters — because at the end, it’s what actually makes the difference.
Now.
