What makes Friday’s so great?  You awake in the morning to get ready for work, and then you realize “it’s Friday” and you start to get some excitement and energy.  Fridays are great for many, because it is the last day of the work week and then you get two days to yourself.  The question is, what are you going to do with those two days?

The weekend arrives and you may have the opportunity to schedule your entire two days.   You have so many things that you could do and you try to figure out which one is the most important to you.  Maybe you decide that you are going to “catch up” on your sleep and you sleep later on Saturday morning.  For others, you might decide that you are going to get up early and go ski, hike, bike, or go to the gym and work out.

It does not matter what you choose, so long as you make a conscious decision on how you will be spending this precious time.  Others of you may have predetermined plans for the weekend that may have been by your own doing or the scheduling of your mate.   In those cases, you may have fewer choices but you can make conscious decisions on how you will present yourself and whether or not you will have happiness and joy.

The weekends, like your lifetime moments are to held with appreciation and to be lived with intention.  How many times do you go into work on Monday morning and a co-worker asks, “how was your weekend” and you cannot remember what you did.  That is perfectly okay, but that may be a clue that you are not living with intention.

Living with intention means that you give whatever it is you decide is the “priority” for you at this moment of your life, your undivided attention.  That means, as you are reading this, you have decided to give this message your undivided attention – nothing else.   Now, we understand that you are busy and that maybe you are standing on a bus reading this from your phone, or maybe you are in a doctor’s office reading this on your phone and the doctor comes into the room to interrupt you.  Of course, those things are going to happen, and when they do, you give the doctor or the people around you on the bus your undivided attention.

Think of your attention as a laser pointer with a red dot.  You can place that dot on one person or one thing, but you cannot place the dot on multiple things or people at the same time.  That is similar to how your attention should be focused.   You can be at a party and talk to lots of people, but even if you talk to someone for a few seconds, they should have your undivided attention.

When you sit quietly with yourself, possibly in meditation, you need to provide a clear mind so that you can “reboot” your mind.  In order to do that, you can only be thinking about this moment.  For some, they do that by focusing on the breath they currently have in their lungs, as it is released from their lungs.  That is a way of focusing on the current moment and shifting the focus away from the moment.

So, we ask you, “what are you going to do this weekend?”   You can take a while for your reply, and you maybe do not know what you are going to do.  That is perfectly okay.  The important thing is if we ask you during the weekend, “what are you doing?” you can provide an answer.  That answer hopefully, will also reflect a conscious decision that you have made on how you would like to spend one of the few moments that you have for yourself.

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Moments of your life should never be taken “for granted,” but rather should be “spent” with full consciousness and with intention.

Written Fri Jan 10, 2014, 8:06 – 8:20 AM MT