Living in the moment

As a notorious worrier, I'm fast learning that it's better to live in the moment than to worry about next week, next month, next year. My little girl is growing fast and developing skills faster, so I'm having to remind myself to appreciate what's going on with her in the day-to-day rather than search for the next milestone and get too excited about a few months or years time when she's doing things she's not doing yet right now.

I think it's important to live day-to-day, not comparing days to other days, especially when you have a baby. One day might be a bad day where nothings going right, your baby has thrown up on you twice, on dry clean only clothes (learned my lesson there!), she's crying when you try to get her to drink and she just won't sleep at the end of the day. The next day might go smoothly, and you actually manage to have breakfast. I think it's really important to take every thing as it comes, and just live in the moment. But I also think that it's really easy to get stuck in a rut this way, to not make plans for the future and to let everything go. So where do you draw the line? How do you find the balance between actually living life (living in the moment), and making things happen (planning life)?