Be In the Moment

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all having a great week so far! The Dallas Fort Worth, TX areas, are getting some storms this week, so if you're out be careful, if all is safe, then enjoy the rain! I love early spring storms, especially in TX, cool displays of lightning, awesome clashes of thunder, nice temp with a cool breeze, until the wind picks up to 80+but it dies down eventually,lol. Cleaning the pool the next day is always adventurous, fishing for chairs, lava rocks, etc.

I was hanging out with my son the other morning, he's a bit shy of two, and his favorite thing to do, is to tackle the daddy. He will take off "baby running" at me, lift both hands in the air, then his tell, is he starts this snickering laugh under his breath and just crashes into me. So I'll let him bowl me over, and take down the daddy. He climbs up everything, is curious about all, and is just a happy boy. 

My wife was walking down the hall passed the room we were in, and said to me, "You are really blessed Hal." She's the best accountability partner in the world to me. Usually when people hand compliments it's easy to question why, or, what were they talking about? It's also easy to take something someone said the wrong way, or to believe it was meant in a different matter then what it was intended. 

That morning, I knew exactly what she was talking about when she said that I was blessed. I knew she was referring to the look on my face, I was completely in the moment hanging out with my son. Watching cartoons, playing cars, getting tackled. In that moment I wasn't happy for any other reason.....I wasn't troubled with any other worries.....I wasn't thinking about what I needed to get done, what was going to come up, what could come up, blah, blah, blah blah, blah....lol. I was happy in the moment, I was spending quality time with my son. 

Life is busy, work, friends, family, kids, activities, affiliations. Life can be hard, having to work two jobs to pay bills, working 60 to 80 hours a week at one to do the same, trying to climb the corporate ladder, spats with friends/family, relationships. The things that can save us time, and help, are also things that take up some of our time. Your smart phone, can be an awesome tool, but social media, email, texts, calls, news, DISTRACTIONS. 

I can remember a ways back when I was just getting Camp Crusade Combat up and going. A single father, working full time in healthcare staffing and recruiting, being at the gym first thing in the morning, going to work, being at the gym right when I got home on the days I didn't have my daughter and half the days I did, she would go with me. I'd be on the phone with fight managers, fight promotions, gyms, fighters, our sponsored fighters until the next morning, to wake up by 4am and do it again. A mortgage to pay, child support, healthcare, bills, money to live on, car.......

I mean, there were times, I would go get a massage....and didn't stop thinking about something the entire time.......walked away from my massage more stressed out for the time that I just spent getting a massage. 

It wasn't really until about 4 years ago when my wife and I started to meditate together that I wasn't always either worried about a past event or thinking about a future occurrence. I always get questions and or weird looks when I mention meditation, so I want to share with you what Deepak Chopra says about meditation, "Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you."

When I meditate, I am not doing so in false idol, but rather a way to quiet myself and truly listen to God, to the world. Meditation is what allowed me to start getting back to living in the exact moment that is taking place.

We all seem to be so short with time these days. Reality is, yes, the world is more congested, there is more competition, wages are stagnant, the economy is ebbing and flowing. So yes, you are busy, sometimes we can't fit in, all the things that we want to. However, if we look at our time that we spend, and the quality of that time, maybe we can make small alters to our state of mind, allowing us to accomplish more within the same time constraints we seem to have.

At work, how often do you find yourself thinking about something that is going on in your personal life? How much time do you spend thinking about it, or looking at social media, or going outside for a break? All of those aren't bad things necessarily. Though out of the regular 40 hours a week that constitute a full time job, how many hours do you solely focus on the task at hand? When you are on a phone call, are you AWARE on the phone call? Or are you just making it? If you are in sales, that can determine a lot of your time spent. You can burn through 30 phone calls in a two hour time window, the whole time thinking about the sprinkler head you rolled over yesterday and literally waste 2 hours of your week. 

At home, man, how much do you work to get to be able to come home and relax? To get to hang out with your friends? With your kids? You just got done working 40+hours a week, ran over and fixed a sprinkler head, paid bills, to have more on the way...Those moments that you have with your family how valuable are they? Yet, we find ourselves sitting in a room, on our phones, emailing clients, or doing things that we should have taken care of at work, or planning for the next day or how to recover. We let the 2 hours that we get to spend with our kids before they go to bed, vanish in the blink of an afterthought at work. Then we complain to ourselves if we only had more time. 

As the week progresses, really try to stay in the moment that is going on at that exact time. If you are making sales calls, make the sales calls. Be involved, be in the moment, you will hear buying signs you wouldn't when you are distracted. You will pick up on the little tweaks in someones voice telling you to back off and try again. When you get home, and have time with your family or friends on a patio, put the phone away. Stop thinking about things that could happen, or things that did happen. Engage your friends, engage your family. Show them your interest, be in THAT moment. Not in a moment that has already or hasn't yet occurred. 

By being in the moment, you will be able to more clearly see what the world, what God is giving you. You will be able to see what you have to be thankful for. You will have that look in your eye, that will make the closest to you, walk by and say, "You are blessed". You will save time, you will make better decisions because they will be completely in the time that they are supposed to be in, not the time you are trying to force them into. 

I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your week! Be blessed!

Best regards,

Hal Brock 
www.CampCrusade.com
@halbrock

Post note: If you are interested in our services, you can go to www.campcrusade.com. We have online interaction and accountability services for as low as $2.99 a month, and for more personal spiritual motivation services, we have packages that we can tailor for you or your business; email [email protected]. Also my wife, and other mentors are available, if I'm not quite your speed.