WHAT ABOUT THE BIG STUFF?

Friday, January 12, 2007

In a previous blog I wrote about a book I am rereading, Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff. On page 30, author, Richard Carlson wrote these insightful words: “Many people live as if life were a dress rehearsal for some later date. It isn’t. In fact, no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have control over. When our attention is in the present moment, we push fear from our minds. Fear is the concern over events that might happen in the future—we won’t have enough money, our children will get into trouble, we will get old and die, whatever.”

Notice again the words: “In fact, no one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow.”

On December 13, 2006, Richard Carlson, the author of those words died of pulmonary embolism resulting in cardiac arrest while enroute from California to a television appearance in New York. He was 45 years old.

He also wrote, What About The Big Stuff—Finding Life After Death.

“No one has a guarantee that he or she will be here tomorrow.” Live in the present moment!