subject: Success, Happiness and Wasting Your Energy [print this page] So, stop whatever you're half-heartedly doing or supposed to be doing for a moment. Ask yourself 'What am I actually doing now?' Ask yourself 'Has this got anything to do with what I'm supposed to be doing?' - or an even bigger question 'Has what I'm doing now got anything at all to do with all the wonderful things that I really want out of life?' Take stock. Don't waste your precious energy because the energy that you put into life is the energy that you get out. Your success and happiness depends on being focused on the here and now - on paying attention to what you're actually doing (even if you don't like what you're doing - because not liking is just a useless thought). Your life depends on whether you're present here and now. So sit up straight and pay attention!
