Each moment of our lives offers amazing opportunities to enjoy, appreciate, achieve, create and explore interesting thoughts and ideas - if we use our time and attention wisely.
We can use this precious series of moments to enrich our well-being, create happiness and spiritual success...
Or we can squander our time, do the exact opposite and manufacture misery, hate, anger, distress and despair.
When we cherish time, our lives and these incredible opportunities we want to make the most of each moment.
Focusing time and attention wisely on positive thoughts, actions and objectives that build happiness and spiritual success is a central, key organizing concept of the Happiness Habit.
We know Thoughts Have Consequences, because Our Focus of Attention Determines Our Feelings and Whatever We Focus on Expands in our minds. Remembering Our Time And Attention Are Limited and Urgency Creates Energy, Determination, Decisiveness and Focus.
Each time you look at a clock, your watch or think about time, ask yourself, "What's the best use of my time and attention right now? (This is a variant of Alan Lakein's classic line, "What's the best use of my time right now?")
Time spent unhappy unnecessarily is wasted time.
Continually trying to get the most joy from our moments and using time to enjoy, appreciate and achieve are powerful ways to create happiness and a happy life!
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Wonderful post, Michele!
Here's how I see it: Life is nothing more than a continual string of moments.
In other words, life isn't lived or experienced as a stretch of time, but as a moment that then fades instantaneously into the next moment, and then the next, and so forth.
It is so true, as you say, that a dissatisfying, unhappy life is one in which the moments of time were too often wasted on negative thoughts and self-defeating behaviors that could produce nothing but dissatisfaction and unhappiness.
Posted by: Ken Wert | 06/24/2011 at 05:03 AM
Spectacular post!
You mentioned something that I actually do:
Look at the time and wonder how to make the most of it.
At "times", time is just way too fast. We need to treasure it before its late.
Posted by: be happy | 01/18/2011 at 01:20 PM
Life is like a fire, only give oneself add fuel to not snuffed out. Thank you for sharing the joy!
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Posted by: Quotes About Happiness | 09/29/2010 at 01:26 AM
What a great blog post. Yes, enjoy the moment!
Find the joy in the moment - in the now. Sometimes this can be hard, but still do our best.
Do not dwell in the past that you no longer need, nor live in fear of the future.
Thank you for sharing this inspiring and well written blog post with us.
Posted by: Nyomi | 09/16/2010 at 12:00 PM