Too many of us are living for tomorrow, or next week, or next year. I myself am one of many who focused all of my attention and happiness on Fridays, which is well known as payday. As many of you know, this is a paycheck to paycheck mentality. All of my attention was focused on getting that check in on Friday so that I could have just over enough to pay the bills. Or if I was at work (working for somebody else) I couldn’t wait for the time to go by fast just so I could leave. I remember doing specific tasks at work that made the time seem as if it was going by quickly. I would also complain if time wasn’t going by fast enough, and I would be happy if it was going quickly. What is wrong with rushing is that time goes by so fast when you are focused on another day all of the time rather than today itself. As you are focused on another day all of the time, while time is moving fast, that means time is running out, and your getting older. So when all of your time and energy is put into rushing for another day, you are waisting your time that you could and should be enjoying.

Whenever we take our focus off tomorrow and focus on today, we get today’s tasks done much better. If you are working on a project that requires you to use quite a bit of your brain, then you can’t sit there and worry about what you have to do another day. Whenever you do that it takes away from the energy and focus that you put towards your current task.

We are here to enjoy life. We are each given time, and we all have the same amount of time as everyone else. Lets pretend someone is taking score of how much we are enjoying life. The winner is based on whoever spends more of their time being happy. So in this case whoever is happier for the longest time wins. How could you possibly win this competition of being happiest for the longest period of time, when you are spending the majority of that time rushing and not enjoying where you currently are?