Whenever we are enjoying life and marveling at its beauty, we are living in the present moment. Worrying about the future is one way to withdraw our focus from the present, thereby missing our opportunity to fully seize all it has to offer. Another way to misdirect our focus is to dwell in the past. While the past does deserve some of our attention, the point is to learn from it, so we can apply the lessons learned to our current situation. This in turn allows for us to be prepared for the future. Yes, we want to be aware of the past and have a vision for our future, but the present moment is the place where life happens. For a life filled with richness and joy, it is critical to keep our attention and energy in the "here and now". When we develop a habit of directing our energy and focus into the past, to dwell on rather than learn from our experiences, it literally wastes the present and the opportunities it contains to create the lives we want. We can live in the past in many ways, some of which include: finding reasons from our past for why we are not enjoying, or being all we can be in, the present wishing we had done things differently by playing we "coulda, shoulda, woulda" remembering an emotionally charged event and allowing it to dominate our present emotional state thinking or believing that our past dictates how things will