Coaching practices for I Treat the Ordinary Moments Sunday Dinners with My Aging Parent Bedtime with a Kid Who's Growing Up Fast Like They'll Go on Forever Half Present and Rushing Through Them When Really There's Some Unknown Finite Number of Them Left and I Don't Want to Keep Sleepwalking Past Them
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- I treat the ordinary moments
- My kid still asks me to carry them and I barely register it, and it hit me that one of these ordinary days is quietly the last time it ever happens
- My ordinary days just blur past
- It hits me afterward that some ordinary moment was the last one
- The good parts of my day are happening but I’m never actually in them
Practices that may help
- "Last time" meditation
Ask yourself: when was the last time I experienced this, and how many more times might I?
Negative Visualization for Gratitude: The Stoic Path to Appreciation - Notice lasts — the last-time meditation
Notice that every experience has a last time, and acknowledge when you’re in one.
Memento Mori: Using Mortality Awareness to Focus What Matters - The last ordinary moment
Notice a routine moment — a meal, a commute, a morning — as if you might not have it again.
The Last Time Meditation - The last-time awareness practice
Periodically notice when you might be doing something for the last time — and let that awareness deepen your engagement.
Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things - Savoring everyday moments
Deliberately stretch and attend to ordinary good experiences instead of rushing past them.
Slow Living, Made Practical - Impermanence awareness practice
Deliberately notice the transience of a good experience to deepen your engagement with it while it’s here.
Wabi-Sabi: Finding Beauty in Imperfection - The daily ending awareness
Each evening, name one thing that happened today that will not happen quite this way again.
The Last Time Meditation - Review the day each night
Before sleep, put the day on trial: what did I do well, what badly, what will I do differently?
Seneca on Time, Made Practical - Cultivating a present-moment aesthetic
Train yourself to notice and appreciate the unrepeatable qualities of the present moment — light, weather, the texture of today.
Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things - The last day of summer
Treat any positive experience as if it is happening for the last time — not morbidly, but to be fully present.
Negative Visualization, the Stoic Practice
Related concerns
- When Memento Mori The Last Time Meditation
Notice that every experience has a last time, and acknowledge when you’re in one.
Notice lasts — the last-time meditation
- When Mono No Aware Last Time Awareness
Periodically notice when you might be doing something for the last time — and let that awareness deepen your engagement.
The last-time awareness practice
- When Wabi Sabi Impermanence Awareness
Deliberately notice the transience of a good experience to deepen your engagement with it while it’s here.
Impermanence awareness practice
- Appreciate Ordinary Moments
Notice a routine moment — a meal, a commute, a morning — as if you might not have it again.
The last ordinary moment
- Do Each Act As Your Last
Treat each present action as if it were your last, with full attention and no half-measures.
Do the task in front of you, fully
- Mono No Aware Last Time
Periodically notice when you might be doing something for the last time — and let that awareness deepen your engagement.
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