Don't miss now

​If you are reading this, you're experiencing the greatest gift you'll have the chance to experience today. Not the gift of my writing, but the gift of right now.

Many people will not get a 'right now' today.

That's sad. For sure. But not as sad as the number of people who will get a now - and miss it.

They will miss it because they are using right now to try to rewrite the 'nows' they let get away - the 'nows' that didn't turn out the way they wish they would have. They are trying to rebuild nows they destroyed, seemingly unaware that the only now you get to write is the one you're in.

THIS right now. The one that comes with THIS next breath.

Likewise, writing the story of some now down the road isn't a great replacement for writing the story of the now you're in. Some people won't wake up today to live out the right now they wrote years ago.

Their fading regret was likely that they spent those days writing a right now story they'll never see instead of writing a right now story they could have treasured right then - right then in that right now.

We all do this at times. We try to fix the right now we missed, thinking it will make the road easier right now. Or we dream of a day right now will feel better, because that too makes the road seem easier right now.

When in reality, the only thing that makes right now easier is finding the gift in it. It's this unique puzzle we all have a chance to solve, finding the beauty in our every right now.

Even in the battles.

So much of our happiness is built on control. That's why we want to rewrite our past and prewrite our future. Control. But the reality is, the further life gets removed from 'now' - from the gift of this very present and in front of us right now - the less control we have over it.

The most control you'll ever have over life is to look around you, in this moment, and find the gift. Find it and lift up and celebrate you're right now prize.

How many 'nows' will you find a prize in this week?

And how many 'nows' will you miss....?