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  • Food, Travel, Fitness, & Meditation Blog,  Mindfulness

    Being Present Vs. Being Goal-Oriented

    December 27, 2017 /

    Are they at odds?  That’s what I’ve been wondering.  I’ve been trying to live “in the moment” and to focus on being present and being mindful.  However, my nature is to obsess about the future, to carefully plan and ponder and set goals and worry and live in a constant state of anticipation over what’s to come.  (Usually pensive anticipation.)  I have no desire to avoid being goal-oriented.  I fear that this would result in finding myself ten years from now in exactly the station in life as today.  And that’s something I don’t want. There’s something about the idea of “living in the moment” that makes it sound as…

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