391: How to Live in the Present Moment

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Business, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

"How's life?" can often be a loaded question, especially with the state of the world right now. If you ask most people, they'll run through an inventory of their circumstances. You might hear them talk about what's going well, but, more often than not, you'll hear about their problems, financial challenges, difficulties at work, struggles in their marriage, or other less-than-stellar circumstances.

And when we're not talking about our problems/circumstances, we're thinking about them. We tend to listen to the voice in our head, stressing about the present and worrying about the future, and unconsciously allowing our emotional well-being to suffer.

But what if there is more to life than our circumstances? What if life is actually the experience we're having in the present moment? And what if you could learn how to transcend the voice in your head and live the majority of your life in the present moment?

In today's episode, I want to teach you two techniques you can use to stop the voice in your head from taking over and give you the power to truly live in the present moment. Even if you're already familiar with them, I want you to look at them in a new way, combine them, and discover how they can help you be here now–and live free from fear, stress, and anxiety.

Key Takeaways

How to assess how often you're fully present.
Where stress, fear, overwhelm, and regret come from.
Why our brains are prone to amplifying and focusing on problems when we try to solve them.
How to not let the voice in your head create your reality.
How a mantra can help you bring your life into alignment on your terms.
My 7-day challenge that will enable you to begin quickly living in the present moment.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake
0:06.1	up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.5	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable
0:14.2	strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts
0:19.0	and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you
0:23.8	a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do to do the same.
0:28.2	Ready?
0:30.2	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast.
0:34.1	This is your host, Hal Elrod, and thank you so much for listening today.
0:37.4	I really, really appreciate you, appreciate you taking the time and today was a good one.
0:42.5	I just finished recording the episode and it's about how to live in the present moment and
0:47.4	it's interesting.
0:48.4	Last two weeks' episodes, I'll tell you I was filling off as I'm a human being, so sometimes
0:54.7	you wake up and you're like, all right, I'm on point today.
0:57.7	I feel good.
0:58.7	The last two.
0:59.7	Although I got great feedback from our last episodes, I felt a little bit off and today
1:03.4	I just was really in the moment, which ironically or interestingly enough, then that's what
1:08.5	the episode is about, but make sure you listen until the end of the episode.
1:15.1	I give two techniques to live in the present moment and I don't script any of this stuff,
1:20.1	so that's where often I don't know how it's going to turn out until it's done and then
1:23.3	I either can go, and that was all right or, you know, or wow, that actually, that one
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