“’Cause we are who and where and what we are for now
And this is the only moment we can do anything about
So breathe it in and breathe it out
And listen to your heartbeat
There’s a wonder in the here and now
It’s right there in front of you
I don’t want you to miss the miracle of the moment.”
– Lyric from Steven Curtis Chapman’s “Miracle of the Moment”
Blech! Time management — normally one of my long suits — is evidently still hanging out on the couch, trying to figure out why Eldrick “Tiger” Woods got away with breaking one of golf’s most fundamental rules without being DQ’d on golf’s biggest stage….but I digress. Where was I? Oh, yes. Time management, and just how exactly did I do this to myself; a quick look at my calendar for this week tells me that the plate is too full and that I’ll not accomplish much, if anything, unless I just breathe it in and breathe it out and live in the moment.
I’ll bet that if we’d take that “breathe it in / breathe it out” approach to most weeks, we’d be better off.
Some things will get bumped, some things will get done – but, in the moment, it’ll be easier to determine which is which. As Chapman says in the song’s opening stanza, “It’s time for letting go all of our “if only-s,” ’cause we don’t have a time machine…”
To make a difference, we have to rule our calendars — not the other way around. Because this really is the only moment we can do anything about.
Chuck Cline says
He got away with it because he is Tiger. If it were Phil, I suspect that he would have penalized himself and may have withdrawn from the Masters out of respect for the rules of the game. Or he may have dropped nearest the spot of the shot and not 2 yards away. Sorry, blowin of some steam.
Bob Johnson says
Great advice!
It’s too easy to get caught up in the “only if’s”.
I didn’t even know I had a heartbeat until I stopped for a second to actually pay attention..