The past is a museum and the future is a rumor. Only the present takes orders.

You can walk through what already happened and you can guess at what has not, but neither one will move when you push on it. Action has only one place to land. Most of the energy people spend on regret and forecasting is energy spent pushing at things that cannot respond. That is why so much effort produces so little change.

Notice where your thinking went today. If most of it was backward or forward, pick one small thing that can actually be done in the next hour and do that instead.