The document provides 10 tips for staying in the moment, including embracing your breath, stopping to ask what you are doing, doing one thing at a time, being aware of routines and habits, telling yourself what is happening, acknowledging thoughts, and beginning the day with meditation. The overall message is that practicing mindfulness techniques can help pull awareness from distracting thoughts and keep one focused on the present moment.

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3. “If it
comes,
let it
come. If it
stays, let
it stay. If
it goes,
let it go.”
Nicholas Sparks
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4. Stay In The Moment
1. Embrace Your Breath The sounds,
sensations and smells found within each
breath are gateways to staying in the
present moment.
Watching you breath while doing everyday
tasks pulls you from the prison of the
relentless stream of thinking.

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2. Stop And Ask, What Am I Doing? What
am I doing right now? You may be
surprised when you ask this of yourself.
You could be doing one thing while at the
same time thinking about other things.
Many days I will wear a small band around
my wrist. It’s purpose is to remind me to
stop and ask, in the moment.

6. “You can
stay and
fight or
you can
run and
repent.”
Raubin Chaudhary
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7. Stay In The Moment
3. Do One Thing And Repeat. It’s easy to
find ourselves staring at our web browser
and notice we have a multitude of tabs
opened, many of them not related to the
task at hand.
There are number useful apps such as the
Pomodoro Technique that have shown
wonderful results in productivity and in
keeping focus..

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4. Become Ambidextrous.. It may sound
like an ascetic call from left field, but
learning to eat and write with your non-
dominant hand is a gift of being in the
present moment.
Learning to construct written pages and to
bring food to your mouth with a different
hand is difficult and rewarding.

9. “Many trains
arrive at your
station; treat
them good
whether they
stay or leave!”
Mehmet Murat ildan
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10. Stay In The Moment
5) Be Aware Of Routines And Habits.
When Noticing a mindless habit
acknowledge it with a smile, and change it
in that moment. Change it in some way.
Turn it upside down or inside out.
Try creating a handwritten list of your habits
and routines as a way of bring focus and
awareness to them.

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6. Deliberately Change Things Around.
Try organizing your books by color, cook
something new at least twice a week. Move
furniture around, drive both long and short
destinations along different routes.
Grab the architecture of your physical life by
the scruff of the neck and shake it into new
and interesting forms.

12. “Everyone
kept
asking me
to stay, so
I did.”
D.A. Paul, Boost
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13. Stay In The Moment
7. Take Mindful Walks. Put your full
awareness on each step you take. When a
thought or other distraction appears
acknowledge it and then bring each step
you’re taking back into full awareness
Feel each foot touch the ground and follow
as each foot bends and lifts itself into the
air. Repeat the touch, bend and lift as you
watch within your awareness.

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8.Tell Yourself What’s Going On. Direct
your awareness to the simple things you do
each day. I’m brushing my teeth, I’m
walking down the stairs, I’m washing
dishes.Try doing this outloud and repeat it if
your mind starts wandering.
As you build awareness shift to a silent
acknowledgement of what your doing.
Placing attention on what you’re doing
becomes an active meditation.

15. To stay with that
shakiness—to stay
with a broken heart,
with a rumbling
stomach, with the
feeling of hopelessness
and wanting to get
revenge—that is the
path of true awakening
Pema Chodron
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16. Stay In The Moment
9. Begin With Meditation. Near the
beginning of each day steer yourself into
the day with calmness, curiosity.and
awareness. 10 minutes of sitting each day
gears you up to embrace each day with
clarity.
The morning mediation can short circuit our
tendency to engage stress from the
previous day or anticipation of a hectic day
ahead.

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10. Acknowledge Your Stream Of
Thoughts. We all tell ourselves a multitude
of stories each day as we go about our
lives. Our stream of thought presents us
with a jumble of non coherent thoughts we
may find ourselves buying into.
When you notice your thoughts tell yourself
“Thinking” and let them dissolve. Our
stream of thoughts are not reality only
distractions in an endless mind loop..

18. Thoughts swirling
between isles of
awareness occasionally
making sense but rarely
do our thoughts touch
reality as it is. Our
stream of thoughts can
be a joy along a
morning walk or a
nightmare spilling into
consciousness with
such darkness we look
around to make sure no
one heard what we
heard..
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