The Art of Living in the Moment: How to Live a Better Life by Choosing to Live NOW

A short, direct book about paying attention to the life you are in rather than the one you keep planning. It builds a five-step blueprint - take stock, get real, get quiet, refocus, scale - and gives you written inventories and three practical breathing and meditation exercises along the way. The tone is blunt and conversational, and it is explicit that nothing here is mystical or religious.

What's inside

• Why focus is a choice rather than a talent, and what changes once you treat it that way
• The idea of the Eternal Now, why postponing contentment to a later version of your life costs you the one you have, and a short detour through duality and the Taoist image of the empty pot
• A five-step blueprint - take stock, get real, get quiet, refocus, scale - that the rest of the book works through in order
• Three written inventories: what occupies your mind, where your focus goes and what you have actually done with your life
• Memory and attitude detoxes, for checking whether the goals you carry are genuinely yours or inherited from someone else
• Getting quiet: how editing your own thoughts and feelings gets in the way, and the thought-watching exercise that stops it
• Three mindfulness practices explained step by step - counting your breath, breathe-hold-breathe, and a secular take on mantra meditation
• How to scale a new practice patiently, and what living with integrity means once your daily actions line up with your aims

Details

• PDF, 32 pages
• Instant digital download
• Read on any device, or print it
• For personal use