Many people are always looking to the future with the hope that things will change for the better.  This year will be different.  This week will be a brand new week. Often, our concern with what will be is a way of proclaiming that despite what has been, more satisfactory events are surely on the horizon.  Yet, every moment we spend thinking of what the future holds for us is a moment of right now that we’ve missed.

I’m not suggesting that we should never make plans or preparations of any kind.  Even in nature, some animals store food for winter or migrate to warmer climates for the season.  There is a difference in preparing for what we know will come and hoping for things to change.  While “looking to better days” is comforting, the only time when change occurs is right now.

Right now is when our lives are lived.  Right now is when we experience all that’s around us.   Right now is when every baby is born and every life comes to its end.  The past is just our memory of right now.  The future is only a dream of what we want right now to be.  Where we go is determined by the steps we take and the choices we make at this very moment.

The present is our anchor.  It’s where we always are.  If we constantly think about where we want to go, or dwell upon where we have been, we are missing out on now, and that’s the journey.  The most important thing we can do is to focus on today and our choices for each moment.  Because those choices are why we are here.

You may have heard the saying “one day at a time”.  Keep this in heart and next year can be a better year.  Next week can be a better week.  Next moment can be a better moment.  Be thoughtful of the present, and you will find you had a thoughtful future.

Knowledge represents the past.

Anything you can know has already happened.  What you  know is based on perceptions of the past: taught to you by others or memories from your own experiences.

Imagination represents the future.

We imagine things that could be:  maybe things we want to be,  maybe things that will be.  They are possibilities.  The future is a cloud of possibilities.

Awareness is now.

Now is neither knowledge nor imagination.  Awareness is the bridge between what has been and what will be.

“Time is on our side.  Time is against us.  I’m just killing time.”

1. Time is a measurement of Existence.
2. There is no past. There are only memories.
3. There is no future. There are only expectations.
4. The only true moment of existence is Now.
5. Realize that your memories are influenced by both the Now and your expectations.
6. Realize that your expectations are influenced by both the Now and your memories.
7. Realize that the Now is influenced by both your memories and your expectations.
8. The Now is all existence. This encompasses all memories and all expectations.
9. Time is not a constant. Existence is not a constant.
10. The meaning and properties of Time are relative to the properties of the Existence it measures.
11. Existence cannot be wasted. It is infinite.
12. Time cannot be wasted. It is infinite.