Living energeially

Aristotle's distinction used to treat life as a series of moments lived like a dance, not a climb to a summit.

Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga's framework, from The Courage To Be Disliked, pp. 198 to 255.

Drop the line
See life as a series of dots, each lived now, instead of a line to a destination.
Shine the spotlight on the present
Do what you can do today, earnestly and conscientiously, without staring at the past or the future.
Treat the process as the outcome
Make the dance or the journey itself the goal, as opposed to speed to an end point.
Keep a guiding star
Steer by 'I contribute to others' when the way is unclear, and ignore whether you are disliked.

From chapter: THE FIFTH NIGHT: TO LIVE IN EARNEST IN THE HERE AND NOW, pp. 198–255

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