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Originally Posted by srinrao 
4. If you think about the future too much, you forget about the present: I’m not sure why, but I keep running across this idea over and over and over and over again in everything I read, everybody I talk to and anything I watch that has to do with being successful. Last summer when I worked as an Intern at Turbotax.com, an executive gave a speech to the interns, and she said the fastest way to rise in your career is to be present and not concern yourself with rising in your career. This is because when you are present you do a really good job of the thing that you are working on.
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4. If you never think about the future at all, you will arrive exactly where you decided to be. Anywhere the flow of life takes you.
I can agree that if you live in the future you'll forget about the present. But if you don't decide on your destinations how can you take actions to get there? Do you simply go on a vacation by living in the present? I sure don't. I figure out where I'm going, how I'm getting there, what I'm going to do down there and how I'm getting back. If I didn't take the time to do that how would I ever get to see the things I want to see, hear the sounds I want to listen to, or do the things I want to do?
I do have the talent of Futuristic (Strengths Finder 2.0, Gallup) so I definitely have the ability to spend waaay too much time in the future. I have learned over time though that there needs to be some vision of the future in order for that vision to become true. The moon mission didn't just happen, it happened because JFK saw the future and described it in such clarity to the public that they could see that future too. Guess what? It came true.
Now that being said Actions must be taken in the present once the future has been decided on. Present Actions lead to Future Locations.