Now

The most important moment of my life is right now because this is the only one. The past is quickly fading and the future is nothing more than and idea. You can only experience this moment... everything else is an imagination. You are always safe in this moment - the anxiety, fears, and regrets are all in your mind.

Gratitude

Can you give gratitude for every moment? Acknowledging what just happened?

Can you love the present and everything about it? Can you love yourself and this moment unconditionally? To love everything is the experience - in the present moment - as it unfolds - without judgement or comparison to the past? Without anticipation or envy for the future?

Hit Reset

When you are 100% focused on what you are doing right now. This instant is the most important moment in your life. Nothing else exist when you are living in the moment. Remember: What's important now is all the matters. What's important later will reveal itself in time. Time = Awareness. Where is your awareness right now?

April 2024

Now

• Reviews for Song of Myself

• Tech Brew & The Reads

• Pitch my AI talk to Tyler

• Prep work for CCWC (in October)

• Getting ready for our trip to L.A.

• Testing AuthorDock 5.0

• Publishing Doug Kurkul - It’s a Beautiful Day for Baseball

• Publish The Billionaires' Conspiracy by Harvey Ardman

  Done

  Celebrate Tiny Wins! See: Done

  Later

  See Not Now

  Reading

• Work on Your Game

• The Keys

• The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz

• Not Fade Away

• This Year I Will

  Writing...

• Prioritize

• The Backpack

• Brains

• 47 Words of Wisdom

• Authentic Love 2017-03-17 06:05

• Tweaking the CSS for this site header fonts 2017-03-03 07:13

• Developing an Advance Reader Feedback Loop for ReviewerPerks.com

  Working on now:

• Escaping the rat race by my 55th birthday (2025).

• I'm establishing a clear engagement process for new clients. - Exploring Fritz Structural Thinking

• I'm building an online course for Uke202.

• I'm marketing myself to writer's conferences.

• I am gearing up for our next TechBrew event and my first TechReads podcast.

  Location

  AuthorDock, USA

  Professional Title

  Catalyst for Miracles

  What do I do?

  I help writers become authors, authors become publishers, and publishers become smart marketers. My other passions in life are Yoga, Ukulele, and Meditation.

  Why?

  Why do I do what I do? Because doing what I do allows me to live on the beautiful California central coast, near friends, family, and a community I love.

  What should we read?

  I try to read a book/month. Most contain wisdom worth sharing. This year, I am working on Letting myself Go. I will revisit Trying Not to Try and discovering more about Wu Wei everyday. Visit my Kindle reading page here.

  Related URLs:

• LinkedIn
• Google+
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Medium
• YouTube
• Cal Poly
• Cuesta College
• SelfPublish.org
• AuthorDock.com
• PubWriter.com
• Ukulele Songbook
• 50 Interviews
• kdpcampaigns.com
• reviewerperks.com

  More thoughts on Now

  Most of the time, we are thinking about the past or the future. We are lost in a thought that may be related, but not immediately needed in this moment. For example, when a yoga class begins to feel hard, thoughts such as the following tend to arise:

• How sore will I be later?
• Why don't I have more energy?
• Was it something I ate?
• Maybe I need more coffee.
• OMG, these people are amazingly fit.
• Mantras such as 'When the comfort ends, the challenge begins.' And on and on... But there are moments within my practice of 'doing' where I am thinking about nothing but the 'doing.' I am struck by the analogy of a circuit - it doesn't waste energy thinking about where it's been or where it's going. It puts all of its energy into the point it's at. Where the circuit lights up is where ALL it's energy is. I'm not saying we should be like programs. There is definitely benefits to 'day dreaming' and letting our minds draw possible connections to what is happening now. In fact, all of my great ideas stem from my mind drifting away from what is happening now. But there's a real power to putting all your thought energy into what you are doing. To do your best work, you must focus all of your energy on the task.

  I have been practicing samatha meditation which has been helping me get into a state of flow faster & more often. When a thought arises, what do you do? Do you have a reliable capture system? Is this what meditation really is? Focusing on the NOW.
  If so, the opportunity to meditate presents itself at all times. :-)
  Didn't you just say you were happiest when you were meditating?
  Then if you can meditate at all times, you can be happy at all times!

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