Thread by @WesElyMD

1/🧵 #Wisdom in 2 little words: Over & Next
 
@rachelnpr on @NPR asked Norman Lear at 99 y/o (“All in the Family” game) how he’s persevered?
 
Lear’s answer is both simple and mystic! Read on…💥
 
n.pr/3mC0VZ1

2/ “Two little words we don’t pay enough attention to: Over & Next. When something is over, it is over. And we are on to next. I like to think about the hammock in the middle of those two words.”
 
I’m going to rest in the hammock today…what do this mean for me?

3/ “That’s living in the moment. That’s the moment I believe I’m living as I complete this sentence. And it couldn’t be more important to me.” #NormanLear
 
I’m reminded of this next quote…

4/ “Between stimulus & response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth & our freedom.” Author unknown
 
Included by Covey (7 Habits fame) in intro to Pattakos’s “Prisoners of Our Thought: Viktor Frankl’s principles…”

5/ That space between stimulus and response is the present moment. That’s where we have choices. It’s where all of life takes place. Wisdom is the ability to see how my present decision will impact the future. In this #MEANWHILE lies our greatest treasure.

6/Below is a 🧵 I created to show respect to the #Meanwhiles of life, which is to say, respect to the PRESENT, the Now.

It is, after all, in the immortal words of @TedLasso, why they call it a Present GIFT
 

https://twitter.com/weselymd/status/1392761068791992322?s=21

7/ Meanwhiles in life, that is, lying in the “hammock” between “OVER” & “NEXT” that Norman Lear spoke of, are not lost days. They are priceless times of hidden growth. When our meanwhile is done, something remarkable often happens.
 
#HOPE – Hold On, Peace Exists.

8/fin
Serious Question: How do you stay in the present moment and avoid living in the past or future? I am genuinely interested to learn from you how you live in the hammock between “Over” (the past) & “Next” (the future)?
 
Thanks for sharing.