Using Gratitude & Mindfulness to Stay in Ontological Mode

Life only occurs in the present moment. The only time we can feel peaceful is in the here-and-now. It doesn't exist anywhere else. The problem is that our minds are constantly going into the past and future rather compulsively. They have years of training in this. Certain sources suggests that most humans are lost in thought around 47% of the time. When I'm mindful, only focused on the task at hand in the present moment, life is a lot easier.

Regarding gratitude, I'm grateful for so much but I don't feel comfortable listing all the reasons why in a public blog. The realizations that I'm right where I need to be and have simply gotten too annoyed with things that don't really matter in the grand scheme of life propel me forward.

I need to see the forest instead of the trees, like getting a B+, 2 points short of 300. This will help me professionally too, for example, in better timing my presentations, making them more pointed, cleaner and versed. In the long-run, this will keep me calm, composed, grateful, mindful and not sweating the little things.