When you shower in the morning, you think about what you will make for breakfast and if you will have time. While walking to work or class, you think about how much work you have to do after you get out. While walking back you think about how good the weekend will feel and all the fun you will have. While at the gym you think about what you can make for dinner and how much time that will take. When spending time with friends, you think about how much you are spreading yourself thin to get what you need to get done. While laying to bed you think about how you will have to do it all again tomorrow. When the weekend finally comes, you think of the beginning of next week and the work you will have to do all over again. If the present is what determines the future, and we are always dwelling or stressing about our future, how can we be effective in the present? Because a focus on the present is what can create a more peaceful future rather than one that looks the same as the present.