Are you living in the past or in the future? Are you holding on to past glories and accomplishments as if the best part of your life is over? Are you holding on to past hurts or grudges and keeping them alive by investing time and energy in thinking about things that happened days, weeks or years ago? Are you still reacting to your parents or your grown siblings the way you did when you were a helpless child? Or are you putting off living your life until something happens in the future? Are you waiting to do things or to be happy until you reach a magic number on your bathroom scale or get the perfect spouse, job, car, income or house. Are you postponing pampering your body and nourishing your spirit until some time in the future?

Go beyond the past or the future and move into the most powerful time in your life…right NOW. The present is when we make all the decisions that determine our happiness and that cumulatively forms our future. Now is the time to speak from your heart. Now is the time to get in touch with your inner wisdom and to take steps to accomplish a goal. Now is the time to laugh and express gratitude. Now is the time to do random acts of kindness. Now is the time to give yourself permission to honor your body if it needs to rest, to exercise or to be fed wholesome food. Ask your body what it needs now and then do it. Now is the time to love and appreciate yourself. If you can't love and respect yourself, you'll never have the quality of life that you want. Go beyond focusing on the past and what might have been or dreaming of the future and enjoy every moment of your life, starting now.