November is a hard month for me to stay focused on the present.  It’s a very tentative month with a slight feeling of waiting.  My mind keeps rushing ahead to the future.  I start to daydream about who I want to visit when I go back for Thanksgiving, all my family that I will see, then I start to think even further ahead about Christmas and New Year’s.

I start to hear people around me putting off projects ’til the new year.  “I’ll start that after the first of the year,” they say without any legitimate reason.  I hear about vacation plans and how “this month is shot” because so and so will not be around to get business done.

It would be easy to lose two months of productivity if these thoughts got the better of me.  So they don’t.  Every day I remind myself that it’s a new day and I’m living in the present.  Simple, yes.  Easy, no.

What can I learn today?  What deal can I go after today?  What project can I start today?  Make that to-do list, check it twice, and let’s start crossing things off.