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📆 Daily Issue 31 | ⏱️ Read time: 2 min

What If You’re Fine?

This morning I was hit with a massive realization.

Tomorrow is never coming.

I know this seems obvious, but for me that realization never truly sunk in.

I am never going to experience the fears I’m projecting onto someday in the future.

I am never going to experience the miracles I am projecting onto someday in the future.

I am never going to partake in the plans that I’ve created for someday in the future.

I will only ever experience right now. For the REST. OF. MY. LIFE.

It's anti-climactic in a way.

The projected lows are not quite as low.

And the highs are not quite as high.

When we’re in the present, it's never quite as intense. It just is.

We can take this realization with us to live better lives.

Knowing this, we don’t have to let our projections of the future control us. It's just not necessary.

I don’t know much about you, but I do know that if you’re reading this right now, you’ve made it through 100% of the trials and tribulations of your past.

What’s to say you won’t make it through 100% of the trials and tribulations of the future?

What if you are the 1% success story?

What if everything goes in your favor?

What if the best is yet to come?

The thing is, we will never experience the future… so why not project something amazing so we can choose to experience amazing feelings in our present?

When I start to stress about life and the future, I always come back to a man I heard talking about his father on a podcast.

His father said to him on his deathbed, “It’s like I blinked, and it's over”.

At the end of our lives, it's going to feel like we blinked. That’s how quickly it's all going to go by.

So let’s control what we can in the present and enjoy the ride. When we’re old, we are going to wish we dared to not let our anxiety run the show.

Negative events will come or they won’t, and worrying about them does nothing to reduce their likelihood.

It's never as bad as we think it's going to be. ;)

That hypervigilance that helped protect you in the past might just be protecting you from living a happy, joyful life in the present.

Keep inspiring,

Nicole