Where do you want to be?

I work with someone who spends all of their time on holiday despite actually being on holiday for only two weeks of every year.

The other fifty weeks of the year she spends imagining, anticipating, desiring, wanting, dreaming and fantasising about those two weeks.

You might say she is in the wrong job. Maybe. But I suspect not.

One year when she came back from holiday I asked her if she’d had a nice time. She said ‘yes’. But then went on to list how her holiday could have been different, where she would rather have been, where she wanted to go next year.

Where are you right now? Where is the majority of your attention? In the past? In the future?

What about right here, right now? This is where everything is happening. This is where the action is. This is where your life is actually unfolding. Live and unedited, uncensored.

And you don’t have to do a damn thing about it.