The Power of the Present Moment

How valuable is this very moment to you? Do you realize that this moment represents all of the possibilities that exist right now in the present and all of the possibilities and potential of the future?

How valuable is your time? Do you spend it wisely? Do you focus your time on the most important tasks and value-added activities? Or do you fritter your time away, aimlessly going from task to task, or activity to activity, accomplishing very little?

Have you ever determined how much your time is worth on an hourly basis? Try it. You may be surprised at the amount of time you waste doing things that someone else could do better – leaving you to concentrate on the things that you do best.

A time/value analysis definitely gives you a better appreciation for what it costs you to spend your time on low value activities. Conducting a time/value analysis is easy – just take the total amount of money that you earn during an average eight hour day and divide the total by eight. For example, if your time is valued at $100 per hour, why would you waste your time doing things that you can pay someone $8 per hour to do for you?

Think about this – everything that you will ever accomplish is determined by what you do in this present moment.

The idea behind the power of the present moment is that everything that you aspire to be, have, or do is based upon your actions right now, in this present moment.

Do you want to be a millionaire? What are you doing to make it a reality? Are you studying millionaires? Are you starting and running business enterprises? Are you investing? Are you creating valuable products or providing needed services? These are just a few ways that people are becoming millionaires today.

Are you using this present moment to achieve the outcomes that you desire?

What do you have to do differently in the next five minutes that will bring you the results that you want in the future?

  • Create a goal
  • Make a call
  • Follow-up on a request
  • Take action
  • Stop procrastinating
  • Write a letter
  • Make an appointment
  • Get organized
  • Save money

    • The present moment is powerful because if you think about time on its most basic level, you realize that every thing that is and everything that will be, is or will be created in the present moment.

    Everything you see is a result of someone taking a specific action resulting in something growing, something expanding, and something evolving.

    Every high achiever has mastered the present moment to organize their actions in such a way that great wealth and abundance manifested in their lives.

    How can you use this present moment to improve your life; to live your dreams; to walk into your limitless potential?

    The power of the present moment is the greatest asset you possess because it is the only asset that you can use to obtain any other type of asset including money, contacts, resources, etc.

    How you use your time is a major factor in what you accomplish in this lifetime. You can be, have, or do anything as long as you use your time wisely.

    So, what are you DOING with this PRESENT MOMENT?

    The power of the present moment affects your entire life. For example:

    Family Life

  • What if you can hug kids and you don’t?
  • What if you can spend time with your family and you don’t?

    • Love Life

  • What if you can say I love you to your spouse and you don’t?
  • What if you can ask a member of the opposite sex out for a date and you don’t?

    • Business Life

  • What if you can position your business for future success and you don’t?

    • Spiritual Life

  • What if you can develop your spiritual life and you don’t?

    • Health/Physical Life

  • What if you can workout on a weekly basis and you don’t?
  • What if you can eat right and you don’t?

    • Finally – what if you can learn from the lessons of your life and you don’t?

    This article is not meant to condemn you or to make you feel bad about actions that you did not take in the past. The purpose of this article is to help you understand that in every moment you have an opportunity to do something different. In every moment you have an opportunity to start over.

    You can start accomplishing your goals. You can start becoming a better person. You can start taking action on becoming the person you were meant to be. You can do this and much more… but, will you?

    Action: Decide what you want out of life and use the present moment to start moving towards your desires.

    Remember once you lose this moment you can never get it back – use each moment wisely.

    Rhodes Holidays – The City Where Past Meets the Present

    Rhodes is a city of a rich 2,400 year history – and until the present it has still impressed and captivated the hearts of the many thousand visitors it attracts every year. Its monuments of the medieval past forded within its walls ironically blend harmoniously with the modernity of the tourism today – luxurious hotels and resorts, productive commercial establishments, wide array of tourist activities – making Rhodes a great cheap holidays destination for the holidaymaker.

    Rhodes is divided into two parts: the new, or modern city of Rhodes which have the facilities and amenities you would expect of a modern city and the Old Town of Rhodes or the Medieval City of Rhodes which has a maze of streets full of history. You might expect a deserted city with ruins from the past for the Medieval City of Rhodes, but you are actually about to enter Europe’s oldest inhabited medieval town.

    It is a busy locality of about 6,000 people who live and work in reality in the buildings where the Knights of St. John did six hundred years ago. Aside from these medieval buildings are mosques, traditional fountains, Gothic and Byzantine churches, oriental motifs of shops and cafes – all forming a very unique and picturesque scene. The town has been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage City.

    Cheap holidays Rhodes [http://www.yourholidays.com/rhodes] provide a tourist many options to enjoy his or her vacation. Simply within its capital he or she is presented with plenty of choices, what more if given the chance to explore the whole island? But Rhodes visitors are winners of well worth, cheap holidays Rhodes even amongst the city of Rhodes itself.

    The island has numerous varieties of colors, forms, activities and sightseeing to offer the tourists. From the cloudless skies above the clear blue seas by the soft sandy beaches, to the olive groves by the foothills of the mountains, Rhodes is indeed an island of spectacular views in and out. There are feasts of restaurants, bars and taverns offering traditional and fine local cuisines, and as well as your favorite international food. Night life is definitely alive in the clubs, disco and the famous casino. With everything that is going on in this city of past and present, no wonder why more and more cheap holidays Rhodes seekers come to the island every year.

    Photosynth – An Introduction to Microsoft’s Photosynth – A New Way to Present Your Photos

    With Microsoft’s Photosynth those static displays of your holiday photos, for instance, are a thing of the past. Now you can show your friends and family those photos of your trip to The Grand Canyon or The Taj Mahal as a dynamic, moving display!

    Your photos will be merged together and presented in an almost cinematic-fashion. It will appear that you are moving around and through the scenery.

    The effect is difficult to describe so I would strongly suggest you see for yourself. Once you have seen examples of Synths made by other people and uploaded your photos to make your first Synth I am certain you will be well and truly hooked!

    You will be able select any particular photo and zoom in very close and see the tiniest of details. And with modern high-resolution cameras those details can be small indeed!

    My very first Synth was made using some photos I already had stored on my PC. They were of my son’s holiday in Egypt taken some time earlier so were not taken especially for Synthing. I picked 6 shots taken at Abu Simbel which were of the same scene and uploaded them to Photosynth. I was staggered by the result. It was almost ethereal! The first photo had my son in the foreground, the next he was with his wife off to one side, then his wife was standing on her own in front of the huge seated figures and then they were back together in the front and so on until the sequence repeated itself. I was amazed as the camera panned and tilted and zoomed in and out.

    As I said it is difficult to explain and they do say ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ so this simple 6 photo Synth must be worth several thousand!

    Pause the sequence and individual photos can be selected and zoomed in on to see the tiniest of details. And with modern high-resolution cameras those details can be very tiny indeed!

    I have made many Synths since and some of them contain many photos, hundreds in some cases and I am amazed at how beautiful the Synths often are. My cameras are fairly modest but even so the results are impressive. I know that many people use cameras far better than mine and the detail that can be seen in their Synth’ed photos can be staggering.

    One of my Synth which I am rather proud of is of St Paul’s Cathedral in London. The photos were taken with my Olympus pocket camera and my Nokia N95 phone so the pictures are not the most detailed and probably don’t stand up to too much zooming but the overall effect is very impressive as the camera swoops around the Cathedral and nearby buildings. Buses come into picture then fade away, people appear and then disappear and all the while the camera is moving around the building and spinning around corners, looking up and down. Search for ‘St Paul’s Cathedral 291008′. I was very pleasantly surprised that it had been marked as a Featured Synth so I must have done a reasonable job on that one!

    Attaining 100% Synth can be a little tricky at times but well worth the effort. Use photos that have a good area of overlap. This will help to ensure that Photosynth finds plenty of matching points and also use bright, clear, sharp images. If you have any photo editing software use that to brighten and sharpen up any dark or not quite in focus photos. It could be that not quite perfect photo is the one that links 2 sets of photos together to give that 100% Synthy rating.

    Photosynth can be easily found by just searching for it by name in Yahoo or Google. And don’t forget it is free, so do have a look!

    I can thoroughly recommend Photosynth and I am sure you will love it once you’ve tried it for yourself.