Today is a big deal.

If you don’t read any further, just keep repeating the above sentence in a loud, clear voice until it sinks in and your spouse begins to wonder whether you’re clinically insane.

Because you’d be insane NOT to realize what a big deal today is.

Today is a massive deal. A huge deal. A ginormous deal. A colossally, titanic, herculean, humongous, astronomical deal. With cherries on top. This is the most important day of your life.

Before you quit reading, you should know that you’re not reading some clichéd motivational speech from your high-school counselor whose wardrobe consisted of corduroy jackets and Just For Men hair color.

This day, you see, contains Right Now. Which is this exact moment. This micromoment of nowness. The little space,lying directly between what just happened and what’s about to happen. These current nanoseconds of nowness are flying by at breakneck speed, and you’re missing them by reading a crappy article.

Even so, I’m grateful you’re reading. Because I am here to remind you that “Right Now” matters. Right Now is not trivial.

“Now.” What a word.

What is Now? Hell if I know. I’m not smart enough to define Now. Maybe Now is a physical moment. Maybe it’s a single breath. Or perhaps Right Now is a little patch of real estate in our metaphysical universe. A tiny portion of geographical space and time which allows you to be Here.

Either way, definitions don’t matter. What matters is that Right Now is all you have. Now is all anyone has ever had, but we were too distracted to notice.

You know why we were probably distracted? We were likely too busy thinking about Later. Or worse: Before.

But Later isn’t real. And Before doesn’t exist anymore. Right Now, DOES exist. And we can work with Right Now.

Namely, because Right Now, your life is happening. Right Now, life is flying past you like Buc-Ee’s billboards on the interstate. You will never get Right Now back once it’s gone.

Right Now, you have a choice to do what your heart is telling you. Right Now, you have the option to erase yesterday. Right Now is a moment with no mistakes in it.

In this moment, you are free to love whomever is in your path. To find joy in whatever is before you. To live all the way, not just halfway. To let go of your pain. To end toxic relationships.

This is it. This moment. There is nothing else. Once Now is gone, it’s game over.

So enjoy your Now. And while you’re at it, enjoy your life in general. It’s yours. Life was given to you as a play thing. You’re supposed to horse around with it.

You’re supposed to get it wrong, screw up, and make a complete mess. You’re supposed to get hurt and have fun. Those are the rules.

Either way, life is occurring Right Now. And I’ve already wasted enough of your time.