Principle — Live now

Birgitta Granström, speaker and coach on personal development, provides some tips for how to get through darker times. (FTBM)

Find your identity: The more you let your life depend on external elements, the more vulnerable you become. Become a master of living in happiness by accepting reality.

John Lennon put it nicely in the lyrics for his song “Beautiful Boy”.

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

Don’t miss it.

Leo Babauta on Zen Habits, has something to say about happiness.

Don’t look at happiness as something that will come when you’re done with this goal, or when you’ve attained a certain accomplishment or certain amount of wealth or material goods. Don’t look at happiness as a destination, something that you’ll get later.

Happiness is possible right now. Always remember that. When you push it back until later, it’ll never come. When you learn to be happy now, it’ll always be here.

Live here, live now.