Balancing the NOW with the FUTURE

Lets face it a girl has to have big dreams! Some dreams are way more day to day like a dream of having nothing but Bacon for dinner! Some dreams are a tad bigger like meeting the man of your dreams and riding off into the sunset or planning the vacation of a lifetime to Nepal or Africa.

Finding a balances between how to achieve the far off dreams all the while trying to enjoy the realized dreams of today is a big work in progress for me.

I want to travel, make music, make art, have substantial money in savings, have a big family, read a ton of books, have a lush beautiful garden and own a pony! ETC!!! You get the drift!
 I also would really in the next year like to move out of TEXAS! I want to live on the West Coast. There are a few things that need to happen for this to be a reality but I am setting the intention that I would like to be moving out of state this time next year.

I also want to meditate more and do a better job of staying in the present. I tend to start my meditation practice and about mid-week I watch it trail off even though as a Yoga teacher I know and have deeply experienced its profound benefits.

Someone wise once told me that every problem is also solved by GRATITUDE! Loving what you knowingly created TODAY in the very here and now only helps to strengthen your projection on what you want in the FUTURE!

URGG so why is it so hard to do? Staying rooted in gratitude is a challenge to staying in the present. 

So my challenge to you and myself is to stay more rooted in the present and stay more rooted in GRATITUDE!
PS:
Here is the mantra I am going to start in my meditation this week! Feel free to try it!

xoxooxxo