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Accepting What Is Does Not Mean Giving Up

by Stephen Mills August 18, 2009
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You can be thankful for the fact that you have a job. You can be doing an extraordinary job at whatever it is you do. You can live in the moment while realizing that each moment is a step to the next moment. You can maintain perspective and even consider yourself lucky that you are better off than most.

You can do all of this while at the same time looking to improve yourself and grow in every way you can. You can strive to live each day more than you lived the last while being happy and at peace with what is during each of those days. You can be totally happy now and at the same time strive towards more dreams in your future.

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The Past, The Present, and The Future

by Stephen Mills May 10, 2009
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Live in the now and make brief visits to the past and the future when it is appropriate. It’s important to visualize and expect a bright future. In fact it is critical. But if you dwell on the future too much, you will be unhappy and unfulfilled because you will never actually get there. The future by definition does not exist. It is the future. It’s a moving target, always out of your reach. It really doesn’t exist.

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