This is optimal living daily episode 3270.

Five ways to press the pause button on your life.

by Erica Lane of Erica Lane.co.

And I'm Justin Mollogg, your very own personal narrator.

We can jump right into another post and start optimizing your life.

Five ways to press the pause button on your life by Erica Lane of Erica Elaine.co

What's the age when you look at a child and suddenly see his future self as much as you see his past self.

I think it might be eight, because lately when I really look at my oldest, I see him as a teenager,

almost as much as I see him as the child I've known for the last

eight years. Sometimes that face, that mixture of boyish and mature almost knocks the

wind out of me. I'm sure every mother has thought it at one

point, where can I hit the pause button? Please let me slow down the passing of

days. It's not just motherhood that inspires this in me, is the changing of the seasons,

the new wrinkles around my eyes, a friend moving away, change of any kind, reminds us to savor where we're at while we're still here.

That sounds nice, but...

But most of the time, life hums along as it always does, and I, for one, need some kind of strategy,

a formula almost, to help me stop living for the future and start experiencing the moment I'm in.

I recently got to speak at a local women's conference and for weeks before the

event I turned this topic over and over in my mind reflecting on the biggest differences between my life now

and my life seven years ago before I started consciously slowing down.

I eventually narrowed it down to five things that I think have made the biggest impact,

five things that if I weren't doing them would make my life look significantly different.

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