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Fitness: A Living Manifesto - A Call to Awaken and Live in the Now

“The fool spends all days in
preparation for tomorrow.”

Heed these words.

The wise man learns from the folly of others; the foolish man is doomed to repeat it.

Truth is often counterintuitive. Yet truth is simple when the soul is quieted and the noise of intentions are relinquished for the solitude of the now.

It has been written that we need reminding more than we need to be informed. This is absolute if not counterintuitive truth.

Reminders, at first glance, appear a waste of our precious few moments. If after all we are to seize these moments and extract from them all they offer, why delve into the world of repetition?

Say “I love you” once to a person you adore. Then say it a thousand times over a thousand days. Tell the world which will grants you the greatest destiny.

The future you create begins in the now with a decision to repeat with the intention to excel; to rein-act until our dreams become our reality, all the while enjoying the present moments for what they are.

They are the very substance of reality. They are gifts to which a man can invest his spirit and his soul and create a legacy. And they are the building blocks of all things permanent. Without the now the future is without possibility. Without grandeur. Without awe.

We must not cease to prepare for the future; rather, we must engage in every moment with full anticipation for the splendor within the milliseconds and hope that they will unite to form an even more spectacular tomorrow.

We cannot skip these moments. We cannot glide over, fast-forward, or desire an end to what is manifest in our life in this exact space and time. For within our hands is the only time we have as well as the only hope for the destiny we desire.

What must follow is a simple yet monumentally challenging task. When faced with pain our natural inclination is to desire cessation; to move past rather than through. When presented with moments of lack, our instinct is to project ahead to moments of abundance.

This is a necessary step. We must see and feel what we desire in order to manifest it. However, we cannot do this at the expense of the once and present now.

To live life within truth, within the boundaries of the present, we must embrace it all. The wisdom the past grants us. The possibilities and intentions of the future. Both are solely dependent upon the total acceptance of the now.

You must embrace today, this minute, with the adoration of a lover long separated from the object of her affection and reunited for but a moment.

Cling tight. Let the blood rush from your fingers until they turn the purest of white. Hold these moments as the treasure of kings.

Then invest them. Plant them like seeds in the fertile ground of hope, intention and action.

Your tomorrows are the product of the seeds of the present. To see crops without appreciation of the seeds that wrought them is to miss the power of the now and the intention of creation itself.

Your mother is the now. The present moment, awakened by decision, is the womb which brings forth your future.

Honor this.

Greatness must no longer be defined as what one has been able to collect. True greatness is gratitude; appreciation for the exact and present now. Greatness is the skill of extracting everything of value from the moments now at hand. Destiny is created from the wise investment of these moments, and never at the sake of the moments themselves.

Continued Here

To Your Health and Fitness,
Matt D …Fitness Advocate for 40+ Years
Health and Fitness - WorldWide

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