For years, I’ve been a language teacher, but I started out as a math major in college. There wasn’t a definitive reason why—I just found that math made sense to me. No matter how complex the problem, the solution usually came from simplification. As Bruce Lee famously said, “Stripping away the inessential until the truth is revealed.”
In a world overflowing with so-called resources, maybe what we truly need is less—less clutter, fewer distractions, and more focus on what really matters. At the most fundamental level, you already have two of the most powerful tools imaginable: your mind and this moment. Everything else is a variable, dependent on circumstances that I could never predict. But with these two resources, your possibilities are nearly endless.
Your mind is an extraordinary machine. Though it was designed for a very different time in history, its capabilities are astounding. Given the right training, it can accomplish things beyond your wildest expectations. While it may not be truly limitless, we have yet to come close to discovering its full potential. The challenge isn’t whether your mind can do something—it’s whether you can get it into the right working order to produce the results you want. And that takes time, effort, and patience.
The second resource—now—is the one people tend to undervalue the most. Now is all you have. It can be frustrating to accept because we often want to believe there’s more time. But the past is gone, and the future is unreachable until it becomes now—and then it’s gone too. Despite this undeniable truth, many people spend their lives longing for what was or waiting for what’s next, squandering the only moment that truly exists. I must be a frustrating person to encounter at times because when people say in my presence, “I can’t wait for…” I tell them not to wish their life away. Sure! That trip to the beach is going to be great but now could be too!
But here’s the good news: Now holds all the power you need. If you can learn to embrace it, to truly harness its potential, you’ll find that everything you want—growth, learning, success, fulfillment—is waiting for you in this very moment.
Now that we’ve broken all life experience down to the two essential resources, what’s next? CHOOSE!!! Choose one to work on. You can either work on the grey matter that you have between your ears. That means focus. Eliminate the distractions and spends some time making your brain better in some simple way. OR practice living in the moment. Be wherever you are. Not every moment is going to be a reach the top of Everest moment. However, you can absolutely look for ways to make peaks out of your moment to moment life, just by being there.
You’ve got what it takes!
Pete
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