My usual morning routine involves pressing snooze half a dozen times and then dragging myself out of bed, while getting ready I'm usually checking my email, having a look at my calendar and working out what I'm going to have to get done during the day. This morning as I was finishing getting ready I grabbed my usual hair product that I've been using for about the last four years and stopped and thought to myself, 'wow, this smells really nice'.
It struck me at the time that I've been using a product for so long, every single day, but never once realised what it smelt like because my head is usually somewhere else. I'm usually so wrapped up in what I'm going to be doing, or what I think is going to happen that I don't stop to be present in the moment.
There has been a lot of change in my life in the last year, (well change is a constant regardless) and when I look back I think about the missed opportunities to really be present to what was happening. Whether it was to appreciate the brilliant moments, the wins or to pay attention to the parts that hurt.
We're all constantly focused on moving forward, the next win, the next engagement, the next project, that when we have something great in front of us we don't see it.
It's hard to be present. It's hard to not get wrapped up in thinking about the future or to get bogged down in details. But it's amazing to have those moments, however brief and be able to see what is in front of us.
Whatever we think the future might hold for us is irrelevant, because what we're doing right now is the only thing that's real.
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