Did you know that we spend about half of our waking days ‘sleep-walking’ through our lives?  Not only do we have our days of trying to keep our minds focused on daily chores and activities... but, we also have various habits and unconscious patterns that we follow, without being completely mindfully aware of doing them.  Therefore, keeping our minds in the present and clearly focusing on the activity-at-hand is a major undertaking for most of us.