Less Goals, More Being

This awareness of being where you are and in the present gives you the constant positive reinforcement of reaching your goal over and over again. However, when your mind is only on the finished product, you not only feel frustrated in every second that you have not met that goal, but you experience anxiety in every "mistake" you make whil

You’re freed, too, to consider the possibility that many of the things you’re already doing with it are more meaningful than you’d supposed

Instead of finding long term goals (building name, fame and wealth) in the future, a momentary aim to serve, to recognize love, to appreciate beauty or to experience and express flow with life may already be available.

Really, though, showing up more fully in the present is about how you pursue your plans for the future; it certainly doesn’t require that you abandon them.

This practice of letting what we did sink in is the key point. As you saw in the previous chapter, most of us focus so much on what we still need to do that we don’t notice what we have accomplished.