#ThoughtHealing Quote for the Week: “Expecting is the
greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”
Seneca
At this time of year, people spend a lot of time focusing on
the future. What resolutions should I make for the coming year? What changes do
I need to make in my health care enrollment for next year? How much money will
I owe, or might I get back, when I file my taxes next year? What might the new
year bring me? What might Santa bring me?
I certainly understand this “what’s next?” perspective.
Right now, I, too, am looking at several possibilities that
might or will come to pass in the next several months.
It started when one of my psychic advisers told me that I
would be facing a number of “significant crossroads” in the first three months
of 2016.
Next, my health insurance expired yesterday, so I’m
researching health exchanges to find affordable (I use this term skeptically)
options for 2016.
I’m on a deposit list for a new GSD puppy that, with luck
and a successful breeding, will be born sometime in February. And I’ve been on
this list for over a year, so talk about anticipation!
I have my annual trip to Hawaii coming up at the end of
January, so it’s time to finish making my remaining travel arrangements. (I
don’t know about you, but I so miss the days when I could just call my father,
who lived in Hawaii, tell him what time to pick me up at the airport, and board
the next flight leaving for Oahu! Twenty-one day advance purchase? I remember
when all you needed was about 21 minutes.)
Since I lived on a combination of unemployment benefits and
taxable withdrawals from my IRA for most of this year, I’ve already run my
taxes for 2016 to see how much I’m going to owe the IRS come April.
And, last but not least, I have been watching my email like
a hawk since yesterday in anticipation of an announcement (no details can be
shared right now) that will make a significant difference in how I live my life
in the coming year.
So to say that, for today, I’m living in the future much
more than in the present moment would be an understatement. So to what degree
am I squandering the treasures of this moment in exchange for what may or may
not occur in the future?
Now, I’m the first to admit that anticipation is a
double-edged sword.
Samuel Smiles said, “An intense anticipation itself
transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of
the things which we are capable of performing.”
This makes sense to me. After all, many of the things on the
horizon for me are all about what I believe I am capable of, and I’m looking
forward to the possibility of a new reality.
And let’s not forget one of the books I published this year,
“Getting What You Wish For: A Short and Sweet Guide to Manifesting the Sweet
Life”; this book focuses on how to activate the Law of Attraction and place
into vibrational escrow the things you want to have, do, or be in your life. Caroline Kepnes described this best when she said, “And
I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better
boost in the present than an invitation into the future.”
And so I precariously balance on that double-edge sword of
anticipation and expectation: trying to be conscious of the blessings of the
moment so that I don’t squander today while, at the same time, inviting a
future that will manifest my desires.
(Not to mention, anticipating the joy of puppy kisses!)
Think about it!
And, as always, remember this: It’s never too late to be
what you might have been!
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