What’s your marker of success? How will you know when you are successful? Will you have 40 million in investments, a second home in Florida or Tuscany, CEO of your own Multi million dollar company or happily married or retired from a job you dread?
What if you could be happy now?
I now choose to measure my success by the sense of peace and joy I feel each day, in the moment. Yes in this very moment. For this moment is the only moment we are guaranteed. Time spent fretting about past events or worrying about future events only keeps us from enjoying and being present in this moment.
Take a deep breath and notice how you feel in this moment, tension in your body, anger sadness, fear or joy or a sense of peace. By the way are you breathing or holding your breath? We only exist in this moment – no longer are we in the past and the future has not yet happened.
I choose to be fully alive and thoroughly embrace this moment. Yes I would choose to have millions in the bank or be happily married or spending the afternoon at a villa in Tuscany. Yet we know that neither money nor a relationship is a guarantee of happiness.
Last weekend in Santa Barbara, I gathered with Kathlyn Hendricks and several of my Hendricks buddies – other Hendricks coaches from the Hendricks Institute to play and learn in an Advanced Leadership Training Program. The experience left me feeling expansive and joyful.
Learning to be present in the moment sounds so simple yet for most of us it is quite difficult. In the moment I may feel angry or sad or scared yet, being in the moment allows those feeling to pass through me and to return to a sense of peace and joy. Mastering these skills is an advanced move. As a coach I am ready to assist those who are ready to learn these and other tools to transform your life and allow you to love the life you are living now!
Until next time,
Amy Barnes, Life Coach for Body, Mind, Spirit and Relationships.