Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.

See If You Can Give Yourself Gifts That May Be True Blessings, Such As Self-Acceptance

It's okay that the mind drifts away but you just bring it back.

Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. All ethics and morality, and a sense of interconnectedness, come out of the act of paying attention.

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?