Have you ever thought that someday you will do something different then you are doing today?
Perhaps you have said, “Someday I will exercise and lose weight,” or “When I have more time I will cook healthier food,” or “I will start spending more time with my loved ones when I am not as busy at work.”
I could go on and on here, but just think of something you have wanted to do in your life, that you know in your heart would make your life better and more fulfilled and fill in the blank.
Does someday ever come?
As a society we spend the majority of our lives living in the past or in the future. We set goals that we hope to achieve someday. It is important to move towards something that you believe in, but how many of us actually do what it takes each day to move in the right direction?
Let’s say it is better fitness that you want to achieve. Some people pick big goals like wanting six pack abs or to run a marathon, but these are not achievable for most right now.
These are what I call harvest goals.
They are something that sometime in the future might be achievable. But they require regular and consistent effort on your part to make this dream a reality, this is where seed goals come in.
Seed goals are little things that you can do every day to hopefully someday reach the harvest goals. For example, it might be exercising for 15 minutes daily, or cutting out the sugary snacks, or meditating 5 minutes each day to get your head right.
To achieve peace, joy, happiness, fulfillment and move towards our bigger purpose in life we need to change how we think and speak. The words “I will” are powerful but they also depend on your willpower to hold yourself accountable sometime in the future. We need to change our language to “I am.”
I am getting healthier, I am present in the here and now with my family, I am whole and complete and anything that happened to me in my past (trauma, pain) no longer exists. We need to let go of the past and live in the now!
Since ancient times, spiritual leaders from around the world have pointed to the Now as the key to the spiritual dimension. If you go to church you may hear readings from the Bible such as “Take no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself” or “Nobody who puts his hands to the plow and looks back is fit for the Kingdom of God.”
In the now, in the absence of past and future, all of your problems dissolve. This is the whole essence of present time consciousness and it is the only thing that truly exists. Eckhart Tolle describes this beautifully in his book The Power of Now.
Does someday ever come?
Someday is the belief that life will be better in the future. I think it is important to have hope and the belief of a brighter future, the alternative is depressing.
But if we are living our life for the future, we are missing the most beautiful and amazing thing, the perfect now. Stat living for today.
Take action on the things that you want to do and you feel God is calling you to do because tomorrow is not promised. If not now, when?
Dr. Thom