The NOW and the FEAR. A FEELING OF ANTICIPATION.

At www.brianharke.com, one can read that "being present is one of the greatest skill sets you can master.”

If you read about or follow any great leaders in life and business, you will find that their ability to be present and focus on matters at hand has led to their success. In the short term, being present will help you do your work better, develop better relationships, make great first impressions and develop your professional.

In the long term, mastering the ability to remain present could help you be more focused, successful, and even healthier."

And no discussion about the value of being present.

The absent are always wrong, and the absent-minded are also dangerous.

Somebody doing without thinking and without being conscious misses life's best and is an obstacle to all.

There is a difference between being present and " living the now".

Living the "now" could be just a good, fashionable suggestion from New Wave people anxious to tell you to do what they could not. And anxious to sell products on the idea.

The idea of forgetting the past and not worrying about the future may sound inviting; nevertheless, it requires a momentary and voluntary disconnection from the brain.

Mr.Ulrich Tolle (self-rechristened Eckhart, presumably after 13th-century Christian mystic Meister Eckhart) became a vagrant mystic while spending time on park benches without too much thinking. Eventually, he became a spiritual teacher, author and talk-show guest with extraordinary success, mainly coming from his book "The Power of Now". Mr Tolle himself recognises that to "live the now", human has to reduce thinking, if not stop tout court.

Even if we live in the moment, we cannot stop thinking. Maybe not good quality thinking, but... cogito ergo sum, and without thinking, I am not.

Most of the thinking is dedicated, in my experience, to understanding the moment to anticipate what will happen after the now.

As it happens often, motorcycling is a good lab, a fertile ground, to test the theory of "living the Now".

I went out just a few days ago on a (for me) new bike, one of the disappearing dinosaurs of super fast, super agile and super fun Sport Bike.

These are "good teachers" bikes demanding all your attention and rewarding your dedication with joy and permission not-to-die.

An intense experience when pushing to the limits, the current Now could be the last Now.

Try to ride at a reasonable speed and live the "now", meaning where you were 1 second ago, 50 meters behind your bike, running toward what you did not anticipate.

We live in the future, we project ahead, we try to think of what will happen if. We anticipate, and this is why the biking game name is FEAR. This is why we experience fears and anxieties in our lives.

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”