The key is to stay focused on right now. How do you do that. Practice. But start with just listening. Right now what do you hear? Can you appreciate the things you hear? What do you feel? Oh! You feel scared about something that might happen five years from now. That’s fine also. Thats a feeling you have RIGHT NOW. But its just a feeling. Its not the event itself. Say hello to the feeling, Make a joke to it. Get it to laugh. 

But today is today. Enjoy what you can of it. Be grateful for what you have today. Appreciate it. Accept it and the entire universe it brings to you when you don’t get lost traveling through time. 

-It probably sounds wacky but sometimes surrendering to being a “nobody” helps. We all want to be somebody, to matter, because somewhere along the way we learned that being ordinary and average and no one in particular makes you a loser and worthless. All you have to do is become aware of when you are trying to prove yourself and tell yourself to “stop trying”.  Eventually you relax into nobodiness and accept who you are.  Warning:  this does not mean do nothing to help yourself, become a couch potato, or overthink it and starting trying to “be a nobody”.  If you are a masochist don’t use this exercise-you will likely use it the wrong way.