There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.
He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgmental awareness.
You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.
In letting go of wanting something special to occur, maybe we can realize that something special is already occurring.
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.