THE MIND BOGGLES!!

 

Change Your Life | January 1st 2026 No. 945

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

Don't look forward - if you're looking forward, you're neither looking at where you are nor are you off at where you're looking forward to! You're in neither place at the same time! Quite a feat - but a normal one.

 

A divided mind always fails - it's an eternal truth written about and explored from time immemorial. Put more simply, if you're not here, you can't do what you're supposed to be doing - you're bound to fail.

 

And we're all bound to fail if we continue to use our minds normally - not only does the normal person look forward to what they haven't got, they are subconscious buried in the past which actually dictates and ensures failure.

 

Now, right now, it is time to wake up. Obviously, not just now but in any and every now. This is where reality abides, this is where life is lived. It is only in the here and now that we can truly be.

 

Now, to truly be is to be free of thought, free of cares and worries, at peace, in flow, steeled for the kind of action that leads to change and success but, most of all, peace of mind and happiness.

 

Don't tell me that you don't want that!

 

So, today, the start of a New Year, is a signal opportunity to grasp your life, this moment, by the scruff of the neck and live this moment like you mean it: free, liberated, in flow.

 

And the wonderful thing is that, the more you choose to be in the moment, the more you end up being in the moment without having to make the choice. It becomes effortless.

 

 

 

This Week's Quick Tip

 

Today is a day off. Give yourself the day off...

 

For starters, give yourself a day off thinking. Yes, it's a day when many people will "look forward" - which actually means "think forward" - that'll get you nowhere.

 

Instead, just let yourself be today. Take pleasure in doing nothing or doing what you have to do at such an effortless and gentle pace that, regardless of the task in hand, you'll experience the joy of being present.

 

 

 

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