The Motivational Café

"The Moment Between."

by Nick Grimshawe

Between one heartbeat and the next, the entire world is held in suspension. At that moment, everything is potential: a waiting for action in one direction or another. Then the beat again, blood flows carrying more oxygen to cells so they can replicate one more time and prolong life, living, sensation, appetite, and, a myriad of tiny things that, built upon each other, lead to life, to human life, to awareness and consciousness.

When I was a young boy about ten years old I experienced a moment like that. I woke around 7 A.M. on a beautiful summer morning. Sun streamed into my room through my window. All ready, I could sense the warmth of the day to come. Birds chirped, a dog barked, a rooster crowed.

As I lay, luxuriating in a perfect moment held in stasis, I realized that all things where possible. How did I want to play out the day? Did I want to run off with my fishing gear and spend the day in idle revelry, or would I lay in the shade under our big old maple reading a novel, or would I visit my friend a few farms away? What would I do?

I got out of the bed refreshed and ready for the world. As I did, the world rushed into the breach of perfection, the heart beat, and potential cascaded into realization. In the rush of life that is childhood, there were other moments like that, but done so perfect. Soon the dramas of life buried that moment under a ton of emotions, experiences, successes and failures that pile up on a teenagers attempting to finding their way in the world.

Last year while working on my personal mission, statement that moment came flooding back to me.

Only within the last two weeks did I discover the moment between potential and realization.

Time is a very strange thing. Any of you who have attempted to grapple with Einstein's laws of relativity know that time is tricky stuff. Time can speed up or slow down relative to the observer. Time can bend and stretch. You have experienced that yourself. Remember a moment when time seemed to crawl by. Remember a moment when time zipped along so fast you wanted to slow it down.

Time is a pliable commodity. Between one moment of time and the next is a space. Oh you can't measure it, you can only treasure it. Learn to identify it and use it to your advantage.

I believe that space between is most accessible in the first waking moments of your day. All is potential waiting for your decision to get out of bed and face the day. At that moment, you have the power to shape that day. You have a chance to grasp what is potential and make it reality.

Steven Covey of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" refers to something similar: the moment between stimulus and response.

Regardless of how you refer to that moment held in suspended animation, you have the ability to change the course of events. Your opportunity is to determine another course, a third way, a different path forward, than the one dictated by pure chance, or pure reaction.

Your attitude determines the way you handle the events rushing toward you. You can choose between one heartbeat and the next how to face a crisis or an opportunity. You and you alone can seize the potential of your life. You can decide to be either victim or victor: the choice is yours.

Learn to find the moment between.

Your life will change in amazing ways.

About the Author

Nick Grimshawe writes two blogs and publishes a Beautiful Summer Morning Quote of the Day by subscription. He also teaches list building and has his own business site at http://ngrimshawe.payitforward4profits.com.

You can subscribe to his Quote page at: http://just-visit.us/?i=84580/.

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