US OPEN TENNIS

It can seem otherwise, but we just get one day. Our life is like a calendar and living fully each day fills it to the brim. In so much of our time, it seems to me, our attention moves to the past, rummaging around looking for answers or pulling up past ways of doing something. Then too it jumps to the future into our hopes and dreams. Again, this takes us away from the only time we’ve got, the day that is here now. But, if we could settle it right here in this moment we would be more effective at whatever we are doing and feel more satisfied as well. It is a matter of keeping our energies together and focused. But how to do it? When I taught tennis I could see a person’s life patterns played out on the tennis court. It was easy to see focus change from what they were doing to what they did or what they wanted to do or even what they wanted from what they were doing. A person’s play was the best when the attention was poised right in the present. Many teachers know this truth, whether …

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