The Difficulty of Being in the Present Moment and Strategies to Overcome it

Premise:

Earlier today, I came across a blog post on The School of Life blog about the difficulty of being in the present. You can read the entire post here. It so happens that I’ve been having a conversation with my wife and son recently about the same topic (which is a slightly better way of saying that both of them don’t think I am being present in the moment when I am with them).

I do accept this as a fact as I am mostly in the midst of either looking at my past or looking forward to my...