Enjoy the Little Things

We have all heard that there is power in the present.

This moment, and the little routines and rituals that make up your daily

existence are where happiness is found and memories created.

But how much do you actually APPLY this knowledge in your life?

If you’re like me, you’re always moving forward, assessing how far you’ve come,

planning your next move,  and caught in an endless spin cycle ofact/think/worry.

You know it’s no way to live - this frenzied movement of mind and body - but you persist anyway.

So often we get caught up in work - putting in the extra hours,

pitching for that extra letter grade, worrying about deadlines.

The hours get sucked away.

Finally, we switch that channel off, only to start thinking about our goals or personal dramas.

We think and strive and worry and complain - stuck on the idea

that if we only had MORE we would be satisfied. 

More time. More achievements. More freedom. More money.

More. More. <span>More</span>. More. More. More.

I know I’m not alone in saying I want to do a lot with my life.

I think I already have.

But there is much more I would like to achieve and experience,

and sometimes I get caught up in that wanting and planning and the need to “make it happen”.

So much so that I lose all sense of time and perspective.

Add to that, my always thinking and plotting writer’s mind, it’s fair to say most days pink elephants could tango across my lawn and I really wouldn’t notice.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving Break. Be safe. Be thankful.

Eat lots of turkey. Or tofurkey. Or if you're not the type, salad.

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you might realize they were once big things.