{"id":16,"date":"2008-02-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.tarogold.com\/2007\/07\/24\/focus-on-the-now\/"},"modified":"2020-08-06T07:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T07:37:36","slug":"focus-on-the-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/focus-on-the-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on the now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that when you\u2019re busy you can get much more done than when you have free time? Just when I think I\u2019m as busy as I can be, my schedule become fuller\u2026 and yet, mysteriously, I accomplish more. It&#8217;s counterintuitive but great; much like when I feel too tired to exercise but then go ahead do it anyway, and feel energized by it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve realized that if I focus on the now, whatever\u2019s right in front of me, I can glide through loads of tasks and my creativity and energy grow. For me, a&nbsp;key to reaping the greatest benefit from each moment has been to play with my sense of time, actually to pay little attention to time \u2013 create a feeling that I have all the time in the world, appreciate the time I\u2019m spending on something right now, and still look to finish whatever I\u2019m doing as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-908 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/TaroGoldKauai3_1024-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/TaroGoldKauai3_1024-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/TaroGoldKauai3_1024-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/TaroGoldKauai3_1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When time dictates your day, your life, it can mess with your sense of accomplishment and joy. I find when I practice \u201ctimelessness\u201d and give myself all the time I could ever need (at least in my heart and mind), then somehow that translates into reality, and I can accomplish even more than I would expect to achieve in a minute, an hour, a day.<\/p>\n<p>More than ever, something I wrote in my first book&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Pj6Roh\">Open Your Mind, Open Your Life<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;rings true to me: \u201cEnjoy the here and now, for there is only here and now.\u201d May you always enjoy your here and now, savor a sense of timelessness, and appreciate yourself and the path that life unfolds before you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever noticed that when you\u2019re busy you can get much more done than when you have free time? Just when I think I\u2019m as busy as I can be, my schedule become fuller\u2026 and yet, mysteriously, I accomplish more. It&#8217;s counterintuitive but great; much like when I feel too tired to exercise but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarogold.ig.dog\/tarogoldwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}