One of the wonderful things about taking a kayaking trip is that unlike watching TV or a movie; you are there and you experience it. You become a part of the landscape in the scene of your life. You are immersed in the midst of it and it demands your attention and presence. Your feet (and bum) get wet and the kayak requires your attention of balance (if you don't want to tip over) and propulsion (paddling) to move along. You cannot help it but be there and the weather will let you know too! The occasional splashes from yours truly will also certainly help bring you to the here and now (or the there and then)!

And Kho and wife Olivia , Chris and son Justy, Alex and son Darell, Lawrence, Yoke Lee, Erin and Kyle from the UK were all definitely there with me and Bev on sunday morning soaking up the rain and getting drenched under a waterfall at Borneo Highlands! Yes, it was certainly good to be there. So wherever you are, be there!

One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create a unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.

While we are home our thoughts are still absorbed with solving the challenges we face at the office. And when we are at the office we find ourselves worrying about problems at home.

We go through the day without really listening to what others are saying to us. We may be hearing the words, but we aren’t absorbing the message.

As we go through the day we find ourselves focusing on past experiences or future possibilities. We are so involved in yesterday and tomorrow that we never even notice that today is slipping by.

We go through the day rather than getting something from the day. We are everywhere at any given moment in time except living in that moment in time.

Lifestyle is learning to be wherever you are. It is developing a unique focus on the current moment, and drawing from it all of the substance and wealth of experience and emotions that it has to offer. Lifestyle is taking time to watch a sunset. Lifestyle is listening to silence. Lifestyle is capturing each moment so that it becomes a new part of what we are and of what we are in the process of becoming. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

To Your Success,
Jim Rohn

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