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The other night I was sitting at home, doing some work when I began to stare at this big bag of chips across the table. And I’m saying to myself: “don’t even think of it, I’m doing great, eating ok, and I even went to the gym today- don’t ruin it.” At 9:00 at night that bag of chips is staring right at me and saying “come on… you’ll continue with your life-restraining diet tomorrow.” Back and forth and back and forth. I needed something to give me the strength to not get stuck into that “you’ll do tomorrow” mentality, which plagues us at so many points, and in so many areas, of life.

I reminded myself of a story that really helped and figured I would share (it’s from Class 8 of Mind Tapping). It’s the story of “NOW”; a story of my friend’s father who had a heart attack. I have a good friend whose father is in great shape. He is healthy and fit and not to mention a great dad and husband. In my book, he is an all-around All-Star. 

One day he woke up in the morning and felt some chest pains. He didn’t think much of it and went to work as usual. By noon he was really feeling lousy so he called his doctor who told him to come down to the office. The doctor took a few x-rays and came in the examining room and said “call your family and have them meet us in the hospital; you are having a heart attack.”

What!?!"

“You heard me”.

Frantic calls to now nervous family members ensued as his family descended upon a local hospital to find out that their father/husband/son was just taken in for quadruple bypass surgery.

After a few long hours, many tears and dozens of cell phone minutes, the doctor came into the waiting room to report that the operation was successful. “He is going to be just fine,” the doctor said.  He soon went home, recovered and went right back at work.

I was talking with my friend and asked how is his father was doing. He said “honestly, he's a changed man”.

“Really? How?”

He said “my father told me that as he was being wheeled into the operating room, the only thing he could think about was all the things that he wanted to do but didn't. All the calls he wanted to make, all the conversations he wanted to have, all the activities he wanted to do.. He had no advance warning that his life may be over without having done those things. When he recovered he made a conscious decision to live his life with 3 letters…N-O-W. He would start to live right NOW. Not tomorrow. Not next month. NOW.  He would not end his day without doing the things he felt was important for that day.

This idea of NOW is how we have to approach the goals we want to accomplish in life.  It is all too easy to push things off for another day, but pretty soon that becomes another week, or month or even year – you wake up one morning and you can’t believe how much time passed and how you lost focus of what you wanted to accomplish.  When you push your goals off because you think you’ll be able to focus on them just as easily at a later time -- you’re just fooling yourself.  As time goes by you either lose the drive and excitement you once had, you get further and further away from your goals because now those 10 pounds you wanted to lose became 15 or 20 pounds, and sometimes, you don’t even get another chance because the window of opportunity has closed and it can’t be reopened.  Seize your moments, live life to its fullest and don’t let yourself live with regrets and “what-ifs.”

I didn’t have that bag of chips because I knew it would set me back. I knew that the notion of “picking up the diet tomorrow” wasn’t going to get me the results I wanted.  NOW is the time when you have to cling to your goals and push forward, even if that’s at 9:00 at night.