Focus On What You Have Now

The message of this mini podcast is to become a "Mental MacGyver."

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

Find the written versions of these podcasts on John's podcasting site: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628038

"The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that  seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of Nectar." Others have labeled his writings as timeless wisdom. 

Most of the John's writings revolve around self improvement and self help. They address topics like:

• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

And stories that transform you to a wider sense of awareness that presents more options. And isn't that what we all want, more options? 

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Transcript

Focus On What You Have Now

The things I talk about on this site usually arrive from out of the blue. I don’t go looking for them.

They just show up.

I tend to credit those moments to a part of me I call The Grasshopper. And if I’m being honest, we all have one — that inner voice that drops little surprise messages on us when we’re not expecting them.

Recently, he handed me this raw piece of reality:

“It doesn’t matter what you had then. It’s what you have now that matters.”

Like most of his messages, I didn’t get it right away. I had to sit with it for a while . . . see how it applied to my life.

And maybe yours.

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to slip into a backward mindset?

To drift back to a time when things were “peachy keen”… or “swell”… or whatever word you want to use for when life felt easier.

And then — almost without noticing — you compare then to now.

And when those old conditions aren’t present anymore, sadness sneaks in the back door.

That comparison sets the trap.

Climbing out of that funk — that mental junk — starts with recognition.

Recognize that you can’t make wreaths from past laurels.

The only tools you actually have to work with are the ones sitting in front of you right now . . . Not the ones that used to be in the shed.

So here’s the move:
Become a mental MacGyver.

Use what you have now to fashion a solution — not what you wish you still had.

Because what you had then really only lives in your gray matter.
It’s an idea. A memory. A trip to a land that doesn’t exist anymore.

And every time you travel in that direction, you delay something productive.

You trade forward motion for frustration and aggravation.

So instead, pause  . . . take stock of what you have now.
 
And use that on something that actually matters.

All the best,
John