By Anthony Meindl | Posted April 3, 2014, 10 a.m.

Part of what being here and having this physical experience is about, is having wonderful desires that show up in the physical: a beautiful marriage, a Hollywood premiere, a house in the Hills, a lead on our own TV show.

But we get so consumed with going for these events that we forget that most of our lives are made up of all the stuff in between them. So we end up wasting so much time waiting for what we think is our real life when its happening at all times.

We have to live the minutiae in between the events as if they were the events themselves!

Because they really are. If most of our lives are being spent there, how do we start to live our lives more in what we casually brain-drain dismiss as the mundane?

First, its not easy. When youre standing in line at the grocery store in the 12-items-or-less lane and the person in front of you has 50 items and youre reading the covers of those glossy magazines talking about other peoples exciting life events and you think to yourself, This cant be my life event here, it is.

Its not easy when you get the call from your agent that you didnt get the job. Again.

Its not easy when you come home to find out your boyfriend or girlfriend has moved out.

But essentially all of these moments are event moments, they just arent being lived that way. But also, they lead us to other event moments of our lives. Without them there is no future event. If we can learn to appreciate them a little more, a few things happen: We get happier, we stop living for the future, we become less stressed because we let go of control, we let things unfold naturally, we wake up, we stop taking things so seriously. We realize that getting the stuff is great but all the stuff we experience along the way is also joyful.

Then we begin to realize our entire life is the event, just as it is, not necessarily as a lead-up to something else.

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Enjoying the Career You Have