Focusing on the Present Moment

If you guys can refer to my past blog entry on Time. You would have know that we are always in the present moment. Never in the future nor in the past. What we do in the present moment, will build a future that will become our Present.

So what type of future do you want? The type of future that you want would be tied up to your purpose in life. Now if you ask me what is your purpose in life, I cannot answer you. The only purpose of life I know is mine only. Once our purpose in life has been determined, we can set the goals that we need to meet to achieve our purpose in life. If you look from another point of views. Goals are actually accomplishments that you achieve in a certain Present moment that is coming in at a particular date in your lifetime (I hope it is a particular date otherwise there is something wrong in your goal setting :P) Other Present moments that come after the Present moment have the accomplishments that gives you the resources to help you move to the next Present moment where you achieve your next goal. These 'cycle' carry on until you reach your purpose in life.

Now if that is the case, how can we achieve the purpose of our life? Let me give u a very simple advice. Focus your full attention and energy on the Present moment. From the Present moment we are in to the Present moment that we achieve our purpose in life, there are a lot of Present moments in the middle. If you do your best in all of them, focus your attention and energy on all of them, then we can truly said that we tried our best to achieve our purpose in life. And with the right strategy implemented and right goals set, there is no way you would not achieve your purpose in life. And even if you just missed it, you can at least tell yourself truly that you have achieved your best.

How do we know we have done our best? Very simple, each and every moment that you are in, you let ALL your thoughts and effort focus on it. Effort wise we know because we can see our tangible result. As long as there are tangible result, we can say we have put in effort. But to say that we have put in our full effort, it is our thoughts that determine it. Many a times when we are doing a task, our thoughts will lead astray. Let me give u a simple example, when you are writing your report, I am sure most of us are listening to music. Do you dare to say that this sentence "Hmmm.... my favourite song is on." or something of similar nature never cross your mind? Or when you are at your job, suddenly this thought come to your mind "Oh later must go and buy bread for breakfast." If you have such thoughts, I dare say you are not fully focus on the job at hand. Haha, I am not a saint as well, I too have such moments as well. But please use this as an indicator to show how focus you are. Try to reduce such thoughts to the lowest minimum. There is absolutely no way you can reach a level of zero thoughts unless you have controlled your mind well through meditation.

Focus your FULL attention at each and every Present moment and you can touch your conscience and say that you have tried your best. The next stage would be moving towards the goals you have set and achieve your purpose in life.

Cheers!