Living in the Moment

 

Living in the Moment

The old school of thought used to tell us that the status quo is the way to go, the safest way to survive, the surest approach to carry on and the ‘insurance basket’ guaranteeing that for all the fruits you are enjoying now, you will continue to reap the same fruits in the future.

Because of the unknown variables in life and the many risks that go with it, for the longest time, status quo was the way to go. It was appealing enough to an extent that anyone who goes with status quo seems to enjoy the upper hand.

Let’s look over at the Ivy League. The Harvard Business Review surveyed to ask if someone does think out of the box and results might just blow you away. 42% said NEVER, 32% attested SOMETIMES, 26% claimed OFTEN and only 3% admitted ALWAYS. That’s a whopping 74% combining those NEVER-folks with the SOMETIMES-folks. And that’s a survey by Harvard !

But hey, what explains if 74% in the Ivy League hardly think out of the box ? Let’s face it, there is the human nature of preserving what exists at the moment. People just find it easy and comforting to do those things they are comfortable with. This pack would strongly cling to the cliché “why fix if it ain’t broke ? “

And this is the pitfall most of us fell through. We start fixing things because we fell into that deep foxhole and we just can’t extricate ourselves. At hindsight, did we ask ourselves that had we been thinking out of the box, could we have averted falling into that deep foxhole ?

Think about it. This is another basic analogy of proactiveness, that approach of being a step ahead of the pack, preparing for the heavy rains even when you are into the blistering summer, planning in a long-term manner for the family’s next car at a time when you have just tied-up yourself for a car loan and correlating to what is relevant these days, protecting your family with that ‘umbrella protector’ a.k.a. HMO for future illnesses which, in the first place, you pray won’t hit any member of the family.

What do you need then ? It’s that LEAP of FAITH, that FAITH within yourself that you can take that LEAP, that LEAP that could even be a QUANTUM LEAP.