I am going to share with you my top 3 ways to live mindfully, to embrace the present moment and ditch the need to be at a certain stage in life, at a certain time. This has changed my life in so many ways and I want you do experience this freedom too.
Each day we are exposed to numerous messages suggesting we should be at this or that stage in life in order to be successful. We “should” have a partner, a house, a qualification, a driver’s license or a well-paid job, and the list goes on. Whatever it may be for you, no doubt you would have experienced this external pressure at some stage of your life whether that be from social media, parents, friends, or family. You may even place these expectations on yourself and beat yourself up when you don’t reach them fast enough.
Thoughts might go through your head like “when I get this ill be happy” or “once this happens life will be better”.
Goals are great and having a drive-in life is definitely going to take you far, but one important thing to realise is, living in the future and worrying about where you should be all of the time takes you out of the present moment. It doesn’t allow you to be grateful for what you already have in life. Your happiness will not come with material things or reaching that next milestone.
Happiness comes from being completely present in the current moment. Absorbing what is already around you and being truly grateful for that.
Once we are present and grateful for what we already have we are coming from a place of abundance rather than lack. We are coming from a place where we are happy with where we are at, anything else that comes into our life from here is a bonus. Please don’t forget about timing, and know that things will come into your life as they are meant to. Especially when we are in a place of content.
Too often we want things too quickly, we look for relationships instead of letting them come to us. It is not until we are content within ourselves that the right relationships come along, we are able to think more clearly and allow only the best into our lives. You do not need to be at a certain place at a specific age or time in your life.
It is completely up to you what you do with your life. There is no right time for anyone as we are all on completely different paths. What may work for someone might not work for you and that is completely fine.
Being present can be a journey at times, especially if we have been living in the future for most of our lives. I know for me initially I struggled a lot. I struggled to see the good in my current situation and be content with the present moment when there is so much I was looking forward to in the future.
This was especially true for me when I had times where I had a lot of things to look forward to (holidays, food, seeing my family, Christmas)…I couldn’t wait to be experiencing the next exciting thing knowing what adventures lay ahead of me but this often meant swapping out the happiness that I could have felt in that exact moment for happiness that didn’t even exist yet…
There are a few key routines I have in place now to keep me grounded and in the present moment and I want to share them with you today in hopes to transform your life like I have mine.
