“Live each day as if it’s your whole life.” – Sakai Yusai
When I first heard Sakai Yusai say to live each day as though it’s an entire lifetime, I wondered how such an idea was even possible.
In Psycho-Cybernetics 365, I mentioned how this marathon monk who ran 1,000 marathons in seven years, told me, “at the end of each day, you take your dirty socks off, and you wouldn’t think of putting them back on at the start of a new day.”
This could be interpreted as tossing away everything from the previous day, but it’s not.
It’s about tossing away the dirt, the negativity, the mistakes and bad memories.
At the beginning of each new day, you remember to put on a clean pair of socks, something you’ve done thousands of times before, but this time your clean socks are representative of your positive actions and attribute that you want to remember, review and repeat.
You toss out what doesn’t work, you put on what does work, what you want to repeat, what puts you into the Zone, so you get the same type of positive results over and over.
When you’re in the Zone, one day might as well be an entire lifetime, because the Zone comes along with no sense of time.
Hours are mere minutes, perhaps even mirror minutes.
With a clean pair of socks you set your troubles to the side, and as a result you are able to focus on learning something new.
Anytime you learn a little something new, your day is filled with wonder and awe.
Even when you’re practicing something you’re not yet good at, when you’re in learning mode, when you’re in clean socks mode, your day is a flowing, harmonious symphony.
And at the end of it, you’ll recognize the feeling of having lived a lifetime in one day.
Matthew Furey
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