A wise person plans for the future. Yet we can only exist in the present. How do you balance your time?

I look back on my past and see my mistakes since a persons mistakes constantly repeat themselves, I use that knowledge to change and plan for a future of uncertainty.

Enjoy the present, but plan for the future. Percentage wise I would say 70/30 present to future.

It is an annoying fact that efficient future planning is a learned skill, and learning it is a matter of trial and error. So you have to waste some of your life screwing it up - spending too much time on plans, spending not enough. This is why the wise folks tend to be old. You can't ever get it perfect, either. I think it'd help a lot if life were so much simpler that the good plans were just handed down from our elders and used wholesale.

It is important to invest wisely for your financial future. It is undeniably necessary to be careful of where your money will be tomorrow. However, setting a date on a calendar for your money to reach a certain level, is not at all the same as not following a very important rule: One day at a time. Progress and not perfection.

Following the idea that all I need to focus on is today and let tomorrow worry about itself, I then remove all the stress that tomorrow's problems may never bring. I must make steps of progress today and not worry about the end perfection of tomorrow.

I used to believe that keeping a datebook and making plans past today was serenity threatening. I then realized that what these slogans mean is that I need to make plans, write them in my datebook, and then NOT WORRY about them. I have realized that planning for the future and existing in the present is indeed, two seperate items.

A wise person plans for the future so that he can live as per his expectations. A person can plan for different events or stages of his life such as marriage, kids, retirement, vacation, etc. Once we reach the particular stage of our life we can be satisfied or dis-satisfied based on whether we live up to the expectations or not. If we had not planned ahead of time chances are we will most likely be dis-satisfied. Most of the time not all our plans succeed. In such cases we believe that it was not in our destiny to live as planned.

we are taught to stay in present time, yoga says,live for the moment, do not live the past or the future, stay in present time, do not finance tomorrow. There are those who live the moment, and exercise faith that tomorrow is only an illusion and the Almighty will always provide, because he is timeless..we tend to limit him because we are limited by our own small minds. To balance our time is to give Him total control of our time.

Its a mind rehearsal where you are deciding what will be the effects of your actions in the long run, but most likely things will never go exactly as planned. We have to plan and manage our time according to different circumstances and hope for the best

always have a goal. to achieve that goal you stay in the present looking at that goal, seeing the end result, feeling the feelings it gives to you... now, working from that.. backwards to the present ,.. seeing the end results... take steps each and every second of you day to get you closer to that goal. your steps today, in the present , helps you to achieve to balance your time and accomplish your plans for the future

I dwell in the past, grudgingly deal with the present when absolutely necessary and don't hold much hope for the future.

Our physical bodies exist in the present, but we are able to go outside time with our intellects by means of speculation.