Louis Massaro argues that the common advice to "live in the moment" is vague and proposes using time blocking to create designated periods for different activities. By assigning things to specific blocks (work, family, meditation), you can permit the mind to wander at planned times and more easily return to the present during the current block, fostering comfort and ease.
You know, people say live in the moment, and I think that's a little too vague. And so when we set up our time blocks to where we could feel comfort and ease, knowing, hey, for this next hour, I could live in the moment of this thing that I'm working on, whether it's this project for my business or reviewing my numbers or being with my family, right? Or just getting ready. And I. And the blocks help because the mind wants to go somewhere else, right? The mind doesn't want to be in the present moment, so it's always trying to go to the next thing, right? So if you're meditating and the mind wants to go somewhere else, if you are sitting and having dinner with your spouse or your kids or friends and your mind wants to go somewhere else, if you know that where your mind wants to go has its own place, it has its own block, and there will be time for that, it allows you to give that perspective shift and say, let's come back to the moment.
