Will it be next week or maybe next fall?  Is THAT when the good times will come? As we wish and envision a life of good times we tend to put it all in the future as if THAT is when we’ll be happy. But let’s not forget about today.  You don’t want to miss the life you are living right now.  Take the time to appreciate your today in a sunset, a touch of a pet, a laugh of a child, nice clean sheets, and bask in the moment of now and enjoy the now of life.  As you see the good times in your every day you will send a vibration out to the Universe that says, “I would love more of that!” and it will come.  Now add in what you envision your life to be and VOILA…good times ALL the time!

This is one of the things we’ve been teaching our 11 year old, Peanut.  She’s getting better at it but when she was just a few years younger, she wanted everything right now!  When we would go on a vacation all she could think about was the vacation and not about all the joy that was happening at that very moment, like spending days in her pool, going to art class, and life in general.

We all get excited about the future and what it holds, and for a young child it can be hard not to anticipate. So here’s a little trick we’ve done with Peanut.  We talk about the ‘big future plans’ and get all excited about it.  We listen to what she wants to do and enjoy, then we tell her, “It’s going to happen but it can’t until we live these next few weeks with joy in the everyday.  So what are you going to find to enjoy today?”

She will then put on her thinking cap and begin to talk about ‘the now.’  She talks about going outside and ‘saving’ moths from spiders, laying in the grass and watching ladybugs crawl up her arm, helping Grandpa with his puzzle, watching her favorite show, H2-O, having Mae coming over and creating fairy rings, and she goes on and on.  Pretty soon she is so excited about her day and what there is in it that she realizes that today isn’t boring at all.  It’s a day to enjoy.

Enjoying ( ‘in joy’ WOW! do you see that?!)  today is just as important as looking to the future and seeing the joy because that joy you find today creates amazing positive vibrations that will bring you the joy you are wanting in your future.

Now getting my adult son to realize this is a WHOLE other story! LOL

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