do you live within your day?

Question

Sir "william osler" the Father of Modern Medicine, mentioned the key behind his success in life which is "Live within the confines of your day" , which means to focus all your attention and be centered within your current day, yesterday was a dream, and tomorrow is a blank page.
each day you wake up from bed is a whole new life for you.
this doesn't mean to don't plan for the future or learn from our mistakes from the past. but just synchronizing your brain over time. to avoid stress and negative useless thinking. and be focused in the moment.
I've been suffering all my life specially the last years, looking for a practical method(rule) to live. i've tried to divide my life into steps where each step has it's own work style to follow(concentrate on each step,when it's turn comes), and tried to use different rules in the same fashion. but i don't know what is the best.
what do you think about sir William's idea?
do you have other ideas/rules, to synchronize brain with time?

Answer 1

With the codicil that you get what you pair for in mind, I personally cannot do that. I live in the Now but also in The Future. I have tried to live in Nathanial Branden's NOW but I personally cannot focus well enough or wrap my brain around that concept.

I hope I didn't just blow your therapy or cause you misery. I mean you no harm nor do I suggest living any other way than "in the moment" if you can get there from here. @8-)

Answer 2

I do my best to live this way. One day at a time. I find it helps me to not feel so stressed out about things. Yesterday is gone and there is nothing we can do to change the past. We don't know what the future holds for us no matter how many plans we make or goals we set. Today is a new day in your life so live it to the best of your ability and to the fullest. Carpe Diem! Seize the day!

Answer 3

To be honest it isn't easy in the beginning. I have practiced it (and still I am) , but it is possible.
And I think, that doesn't mean that you don't ever think to future or past, what is important, is that, don't worry about future and don't mind about past , you know why? coz they're kinda out of reach. you can do little about it. instead, one must try to plan to make the future, get lessons from past and free every anxiety and worry about them and try to have the best out of their day. If you have best todays, you will have the best lifetime.
The key is: do your best, but leave the results to God.(I believe things will happen in their best way-whether seems ugly or nice to us, any way the result is always the best) , This helps to concentrate on the way you're going and not on the goal you wanna get to.

Answer 4

i imagine Sir William's theory is tremendous for him. i do not stick with it. i am going to't even fathom following it. it really is previous me. i ought to throw it out to someone as an theory if he/she were searching for ideas on a thanks to structure his/her existence, notwithstanding it sounds more advantageous to me like an perfect than some thing maximum folk ought to do well-known....perhaps obsessive compulsive ought to, no offense meant. i have no ideas or guidelines to even initiate to synchronize my mind with time, nonetheless i ought to like to. i imagine it is my genetic makeup, probably taken such as my up-bringing. As Popeye the Sailor ought to assert, I Y'am what I Y'am. I war to stay in the present yet I mainly stay in the previous or in anticipation of the destiny. i'm from time to time unable to react to activities/relational episodes that take position to me in authentic time. I artwork in this for all time yet no one has a clue I even see it as an difficulty. i imagine Osler ought to were good. i am going to't imagine how he did it. He jogs my memory of Plato. Sorry incorrect answer, incorrect class. :)