Moments

90% of your life is lived in your imagination...

I read this about 3 weeks ago and it has stuck with me.  Initially I did a double take on it, then I thought about it, and it really is true. 

We live planning our great moments, dreaming of better moments, hoping for different moments, wishing moments away - but how much of our time do we actually focus on the moments RIGHT NOW, good or bad.  The moment of what you are doing now.   You know how time seems to FLY by, the older you get? Maybe this is why.

If you are here, your eyes are flitting across a screen, but where are you?  What do you hear?  What do you smell?  Can you taste something? Are you killing time before something?  Waiting for something? 

One of my more recent tags on my fitness posts is "add life to your life"  or #addlifetoyourlife because the LIFE I have added to mine after getting healthy enough to go and do anything I want is FANTASTIC.  But I often find myself "waiting" to be leaner, stronger, to the next time I can go on holiday, or paddle board, or have some me time.  

What I realized is that so many of my moments were just being shoved aside as I waded through the mundane to get to enjoy the lovely.  BIIIIIG WASTE OF MOMENTS.  ( We only have, but so many we are allotted).

Soooo my NEWLY invented tag is going to be MORE MOMENTS #moremoments to remind us that we need to stop pushing the "mundane" ( Monday morning, no coffee late to work, boss is mad) moments and just getting through them and look around and see where we are, what the world is doing.  While I agree some moments in life are profoundly painful and perhaps you dont want to soak in every detail of that one, but the rest of them....LOOOK at where you are, experience the moments.  If you are out of shape hoping for moments to come when you will be healthier, start really looking at the moments on your journey.  Yeah, it is hot and sweaty, and your muscles burn, and you are fighting your inner voices that say the couch might be comfier right now, and maybe you should start tomorrow.  But these are MOMENTS that will never ever come back - this is your life passing before your very eyes, RIGHT NOW.  If you look in these moments, maybe you will see more about yourself than you realized.  Maybe with practice you will learn to make the most of every moment - not just the lovely ones.  Maybe time will slow down a little.

I am not a person who is prone to stress.  I was blessed with a very laid back disposition, but since I started doing this, I smile even more, I have found myself just stopping and looking at leaves and branches swaying in the wind (like just 2 seconds ago as I looked up, out of my window to type this)

( yes those trees right there!!)

I find time going more slowly, I find myself enjoying the ride more, and noticing even more.  It is a lovely thing. 

I'm 45 and decided that I am not going to live 90% of my life in my head.  I am going to live in my MOMENTS :)  Anyone care to join me?