Today is the only time we can possibly live. ~Dale Carnegie
Think about it. Yesterday has already past. There is nothing you can do to change it. All you can do is learn from it. Tomorrow has not happened yet. When tomorrow gets here, it is no longer tomorrow, it is today. You can not live for tomorrow because tomorrow never comes. You can prepare for tomorrow by living in the present.
Are you living or just getting by. Are you following a routine or are you living life like to day is the only day you get. Think about time as something we made up. We are only living in our little space sharing it with everyone else's little spaces.
We creates yesterday. We created tomorrow. Think about the animals. I look at my dog. She is only thinking about the right now. When she is hungry, she looks at me and asks me to fill her food dish. Shen she want to be walked she will lay her head on my lap and give me that little "lets take a walk whine."
I think about the spiders that are living on the rain gutters outside the house. They are thinking I need to build a web. Now I need to wait patiently. When something sticks to the web, then I can have lunch. They are not worried about yesterday or tomorrow. Why should we be.
Use what you can do today to enhance what you expect when tomorrow becomes today. It is OK to plan for the future, but there is no point in worrying about tomorrow till it gets here. All that does is make you sick. Think about today and what you can do today.
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Monday, May 21, 2012
Friday, March 30, 2012
Do Something Today
"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today." -Lou Holtz
We should always be striving to do our best. If we can, we should at least try to do better than we did previously. We should always be better than we were. That will only bring more value to our lives and the lives of those we touch.
I see a lot of people just moving through life. Some want to do better with what they have but they don't seem to have the drive. They can't find the will within themselves to do what they want to accomplish. They need something else. Usually that something else is the approval of others. They want to hear someone else say what they are doing is the right thing to do. What they are doing is an amazing thing.
What I have come to realize is if you want to accomplish something, you can only rely on yourself for the support. People are not always going to come behind you and tell you are doing a good job. In fact, a number of them are going to look at what you are doing and ask you why you are doing such a thing.
Take a moment to appreciate what you are doing. Tell yourself you are doing a good job and smile because you are doing something you love, something you want to do. Then keep doing what it is that you are doing and keep working hard to get it complete.
I like the checks and balances Holtz' quote suggests. You should look at what you what you are doing today and compare it to what you did yesterday. Strive to make something bigger and better today than what you did yesterday. If you can do that, then you will always accomplish your goals.
We should always be striving to do our best. If we can, we should at least try to do better than we did previously. We should always be better than we were. That will only bring more value to our lives and the lives of those we touch.
I see a lot of people just moving through life. Some want to do better with what they have but they don't seem to have the drive. They can't find the will within themselves to do what they want to accomplish. They need something else. Usually that something else is the approval of others. They want to hear someone else say what they are doing is the right thing to do. What they are doing is an amazing thing.
What I have come to realize is if you want to accomplish something, you can only rely on yourself for the support. People are not always going to come behind you and tell you are doing a good job. In fact, a number of them are going to look at what you are doing and ask you why you are doing such a thing.
Take a moment to appreciate what you are doing. Tell yourself you are doing a good job and smile because you are doing something you love, something you want to do. Then keep doing what it is that you are doing and keep working hard to get it complete.
I like the checks and balances Holtz' quote suggests. You should look at what you what you are doing today and compare it to what you did yesterday. Strive to make something bigger and better today than what you did yesterday. If you can do that, then you will always accomplish your goals.
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