Today

Today is the most important thing you have in your possession.

-Be humble on the mountaintop today.

 -Be strong in the valley today.

-Be faithful in between today.

-Be diligent today.

It takes courage to live life one day at a time. Sometimes courage isn't loud. Sometimes it’s simply a whisper at the end of the day that says, “I’ll try again tomorrow. In the space between “I’ll try again” and “I give up” there’s a lifetime.  It’s the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind. It's the gap between who you are capable of being and who you have become. It's the setting for the fables you’ll tell yourself in the future about what could have been if you had only not given up.

If you’re reading this thinking, “Things should be different right now,” take a deep breath.  That’s not true and you know it.  Because if it were true, things would be different right now.  Stay present and focus on what you can create today.  And tomorrow will reveal itself exactly as it should, just as yesterday already has. No matter what’s happening, you can efficiently fight the battles of today.  It’s only when you add the battles of yesterday and tomorrow, that life gets overwhelmingly complicated.  Realize that it’s not the experience of today by itself that devastates you, but the regret and resentment about something that happened yesterday or the fear and dread of what tomorrow might bring.  It’s necessary, therefore, to let yourself live just one day at a time – just today – just right here, right now.