Steve Chandler - Right Now: Mastering the Beauty of the Present Moment

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Praise for RIGHT NOW

RIGHT NOW is my new favorite of all Steve Chandlers books. With his usual humor and easygoing style, Steve shows us that everything were waiting for is waiting for us in this very momentbeneath the thoughts, labels, identities, and misunderstandings that we carry through life. (He even shows you how to love taking out the garbagethat alone is worth a read.) If you want a brand-new experience of life, I highly recommend you read this book right now.

~ Amy Johnson, Ph.D., author of Being Human and The Little Book of Big Change, and creator of The Little School of Big Change

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Steve Chandler has knocked it out of the park with his inspiring new book, RIGHT NOW. With his use of descriptive and entertaining storytelling, Chandler shows the reader how to wake up to the beauty of life that is available to all of us. If youre tired of waiting for someday to have your best life, read this book, not now, but RIGHT NOW!

~ Devon Bandison, author of Fatherhood Is Leadership: Your Playbook for Success, Self-Leadership and a Richer Life

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Steve Chandler powerfully shares his poignant, practical wisdom (with tons of love and levity) to help us see just how simple the mastery of THIS moment can be. True freedom never felt so accessible thanks to this engrossing and entertaining book.

~ Jason Goldberg, author of Prison Break

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RIGHT NOW: Mastering the Beauty of the Present Moment provides penetrating insights into creating and living a thriving life.

~ Dusan Djukich, author of Straight-Line Leadership

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Steve Chandler creates yet another masterpiece with RIGHT NOW. In this beautifully written, enjoyable and practical book, Steve shares his wisdom and personal stories of how he is a living example of all that he teaches. The message is clear and relevant for all ages: live the life you want now, today, not someday. Be an owner and the cause of what happens in your life. Take action now: pick up the phone and call her, send him that text you meant to send yesterday. Connect with those important people in your life now, right now. This book will inspire you and have you taking action even while youre reading it... Steve Chandler is a timeless gift for us all!

~ Sherry Welsh, author of Slowing DownUnexpected Ways to Thrive as a Female Leader

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I love Steve Chandler's work! RIGHT NOW is a simple yet powerful manual for creating the life you desire and have not yet taken action on. This book provoked thought in a deeply profound and action-oriented way to let go of long-held labels and limiting beliefs to see how I might live and create more in the present moment than ever before. Steve inspires and challenges each of us to let go, slow down and play more with life. Buy this book, read it and use it to see new possibilities for your life!

~ Kamin Samuel, coach and author of Increase Your Abundance Starting Today and the award-winning Wealth Transformation Journal

RIGHT NOW: Mastering the Beauty of the Present Moment

Copyright 2017 by Steve Chandler

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or copied in any form without written permission from the publisher.

Maurice Bassett

P.O. Box 839

Anna Maria, FL 34216

Contact the publisher:

www.MauriceBassett.com

Contact the author:

www.SteveChandler.com

Editing by Kathryn McCormick

Cover design by Carrie Brito

Interior layout by Chris Nelson

ISBN: 978-1-60025-110-8

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017912666

First Edition

To Kathy

One day you will ask me which is more important?
My life or yours?
I will say mine and you will walk away
not knowing that you are my life.

~ Khalil Gibran

Acknowledgment and Gratitude

To Kathy Eimers Chandler for editing, consulting and making life true and beautiful.

To Fred Knipe for creative consultation, music and friendship all along the way.

To Steve Hardison for years of patient and powerful coaching, and for seeing through my past history and my limiting stories so that we could fly.

To Rich Litvin with gratitude for co-authoring the book that fills the schools, and for making the events in London and California so crazy good.

To my friends and mentors Michael Neill, Dicken Bettinger, and Roxann Burroughs. And to my great teachers Byron Katie, Werner Erhard, George Pransky, Colin Wilson and Nathaniel Branden.

To my publisher Maurice Bassett, and all the coaches and consultants in the ACS, from whom I take daily inspiration.

To the colleagues I love teaching, facilitating and writing with: Jason Goldberg, Rich Litvin, Michael Neill, Ron Wilder, Sam Beckford, Ankush Jain, Carolyn Freyer-Jones and Stephen McGhee.

To my sainted M6 team of extraordinary coaches: Karen Davis, Gary Mahler, Kamin Samuel, Sherry Welsh, Melissa Ford, Tina Quinn, and Devon Bandison.

She said, Yes and I said, Wow.
And she said When?

and I said, How about right now?

~ Brad Paisley
She Said Yes

Labels That Stick Me to the Past

I was sitting with clients around a table when one young woman told us about her personal life and how she balanced it with work.

During the course of her conversation she talked about nutrition and food and then said softly, Im a cake person. She was confessing to a weakness for cake.

But her words hit me like a ton of bricks. What she said. Id never heard it described that way... Im a cake person!

Up until that very moment I didnt know I could be a cake person. I thought it was always about the eating of the cake. I assumed I had to discipline myself to eat less cake. I thought it was all about bad choices in the moment. Choices that lead to my plump stomach.

But what if? What if Im a cake person?

Then when someone points out that Im violating my paleo diet commitment by eating cake, I can simply let them know that the choice is not mine. Why? Im a cake person.

I mean, hello! If youre a cake person you eat cake. Its no longer rocket science.

And inside this enlightenment experience I saw exactly what it is that gets in the way of our unlimited freedom and creativity... what produces our inability to thrive inside the present moment.

We cant thrive right now because we are covered with labels. We have labeled and classified ourselves. And the labels have seemed to increase our significance.

But what are they doing really? Theyve only strengthened our separation from the universe.

We slap labels of permanence and frozen characteristics onto what was formerly unlimited joyful energy. (Watch the family video of yourself running around and laughing at age three.)

We pin ourselves down this way. We chain ourselves up. We end up like those people who enjoy being chained to a big brass bed. We become twisted. We now struggle and strain against life... but we are really just struggling and straining against the way we have labeled ourselves.

We say things like, Im a cake person. And because of that, and only because of that, when I go to a birthday party or a funeral... I eat the cake.

Its a choiceless process. Seamless limitation! Organic captivity!