It's September already! School is back in session. Darkness comes much earlier and the evenings are cooler. And some of the leaves are already starting to change color.

If you are anything like me, you are probably saying to yourself, "Where did summer go?"

(I know that the timing is all wrong for our subscribers from the Southern hemisphere, but I'll bet you go through the same thing at the end of your summer season.)

Doesn't it always seem like we get cheated by summer? We never have enough time to do all of the relaxing that we want to. There is usually a list of things we wanted to do, but never got around to doing. The weekends seem to fly past and any vacation time away from work is a blur. Time just seems to slip by us.

The weather never seems to be just right. Either it's too hot or too cold. Oh sure - we'll have some good days, but we never seem to get "the summer of our dreams". You just have to take what you get and do what you can.

And that's exactly how life works. Often, when people look back over their lives they say to themselves, "Where did all the years go?" They look in the mirror and see that, like the leaves on the trees each fall, the hair on their head is changing color (or simply falling out) much earlier than they expected. There might be a list of things that they wanted to do, but never got around to doing. Time just seems to slip by us.

My cure for all of this is "Mindful Awareness". If you remain mindful of how precious time is and if you honor the gifts that each and every moment brings, you will find that rather than living life by default, you make much better use of your time and are much more satisfied with the result. This applies to the seasons as well as to our lives as a whole.

ENJOY NOW!

As soon as you honor the present moment, all life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out of present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.

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