Taking time out...

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Don't you hear it everyday from at least one person or another, something like: I wish it were Friday, I wish the weekend would come sooner, I wish I could be on vacation, I wish, I wish, I wish... And sometimes, it just makes your week longer, because it puts you in that state of mind too. "O, he/she's right, I wish the weekend were here, or I wish I was on vacation..."

WHAT?!?!

Whether you know it or not, what you are doing is wishing your life away. Hoping to make today go by faster so that it gets you to tomorrow. Instead of wanting the tomorrow, how about taking a moment in time today and being happy with just being. Be in that moment.

So I hear you now, "What!!! Alyssa wants me to breathe in this crappy office air, close my eyes and pretend I am not sitting in an uncomfortable chair where the walls around me are fake and I can hear everything my co-worker is saying on the phone with her new boyfriend right next to me in the cube. And as I hear her, that breath that I just took in was not only the bad ventilation in this old office, but reheated dinner from last night that smells more like rotten eggs and spoiled fish from my other co-worker who is eating at his desk, what is that nasty smell anyway?!?! So you want me to take in THAT moment?"

My answer to you is, yes! Because that moment will never come again. Take in each and every little wonderful, miserable, happy, sad, loving, hating, etc. moment you can. This isn't a race, contrary to what you all may have heard, and we aren't rats either. So be happy for the day you have. Enjoy the stinky smells, the obnoxious conversations, the office drama, the bad haircuts and hair dyes, the ugly carpets and the same old B.S. because if you don't, you may miss the funny things that happen, the deep conversations, or the blissful blah of the day.

Take a moment to recharge yourself, whether it is just standing up and stretching your legs, or taking a deep breath, or walking down the hall. Because you never know what you may miss if you let that time go.

What can you do to make the most of the NOW? What little things can you do to mentally be in it?

Take that time out and just breathe.