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<\/span>When <\/span>When <\/span>In
\nyou take control of your time, you take control of your life. You also lengthen
\nyour life since you’re more aware of living it. To gain this control and
\nbenefit from this awareness, you sometimes have to stand up to time and call
\nits bluff. Time will intimidate you if you give it a chance. It will try to
\nconvince you that there isn’t enough of it and that it’s racing past you at
\nwarp speed. You won’t win by arguing. Just say, “Thanks for the information.
\nI’m still going to sit here with this novel or notebook or newspaper and savor
\nevery minute.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\nyou trust yourself to use your discretionary time in ways that suit you, you
\njoin those people who never seem to rush, yet who are invariably on time and not
\npanting. These are the ones who either have the time to talk when you call
\nthem, or you get their machine. You don’t hear them complaining or gossiping or
\njustifying themselves. They tend to age slowly because they ally themselves
\nwith that morsel of time that is not heading toward decline and decay. That fragment
\nof forever is this moment. Although we’re partial to moments that have passed
\nand those yet to come, this moment is the only one we really get. When we
\nrecognize and cherish it instead of slighting it or riding roughshod over it on
\nthe way to one more noteworthy, we receive its gift. That’s why they call it the
\npresent<\/i><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthis moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you
\nshould be. In this moment, there is infinite potential. You get to live in this
\nidyllic state when you refrain from worry and regret. Most of us adore worry
\nand regret. They’re so dramatic. Lamenting the dreadful thing that might happen
\nor the awful thing that did is as good as watching a soap opera and the
\ncharacters are easier to keep track of. But worry and regret are proactive
\npro-agers. They’re like mental free radicals out to rob you of youthfulness and
\nyears. When you stay in the now, you are not aging–unless you’re staying in the
\nnow by lying in the sun smoking cigarettes.<\/span><\/p>\n