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6/19/2012 12:44:45 PM EST
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TODAY
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Today is the beginning of the rest of your life and no truer statement has ever been made. You undoubtedly have also hard many times before, “today is a gift and that’s why its call a present”. These statements should make you realize that your attention or focus must be on what you are doing now and not on your past. What has happened in the past can never be changed, but you can take the rights steps to assure our future.
Each day provides the opportunity to look back at possible mistakes made the day before to use as a guide for what you are not to repeat in order to avoid the same end. By understanding and learning from your mistakes, you start to create a path or road map that can lead to a better future as long as you make wise decisions and choices. Failing to realize that each decision made ultimately affects your future is poor judgment on your part.
Changing the way you think is the first step toward accomplishing any goal. You can choose to be an optimist or a pessimist when evaluating situations that occur in your life. For example, considering whether the glass is half full or half empty. You can program your thoughts in order to allow positive energy and events to come your way. A step toward incorporating a positive mindset could be as simple as completing a task you have started. Once you’ve done that, then move on to other projects left undone to complete.
The amount of time and energy you use daily procrastinating or trying to find reasons for not doing something can be used more wisely. I recently read an article that stated most of us only use 20% of our time daily to actually complete things we've started and the other 80% is pure procrastination and waste.
I am frequently reminded of the “Daffodil Principle” a story written by Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards, one that has cycled throughout the internet about a woman who lived on a mountain slope in a quaint little cottage and who had the desire to create beauty all around her. One day she began to plant daffodil bulbs and over a period of 35 years managed to cover an entire mountainside (approximately 5 acres) with daffodils of every color. *She planted them in swirling patterns of deep orange, white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, saffron, and butter yellow that flowed along the deep crevices of the mountain forming paths along the way.
For those who were curious to know why and how, she wrote these words on a sign and placed it on her patio that read and I quote," " Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking" was the headline. The first answer was a simple one. "50,000 bulbs," it read. The second answer was, "One at a time, by one woman, two hands, two feet, and very little brain." The third answer was, "Began in 1958."*
Just imagine what would happen if you were to develop or adopt positive habits for doing or following through with your desires and whatever is needed to reach your goals. Many of us are too frequently in the habit of starting something but not following it through because results are not seen immediately. By quitting we fail to realize that desire, repetition, diligence and persistence are key factors that go hand in hand in order to assure success. By taking simple steps daily multiplied over time you will find that you can accomplish whatever you have in your mind to do.
Combining the idea behind the Daffodil Principal that emphasis the importance of doing things continually with diligence as well as the need to focus on the present, you will come to realize that today is the only day that really matters.
Yesterday is in the past and tomorrow will never come because it will always be “today”. Complete what you start by using time management wisely and constructively. Take it one day at a time by doing and following steps that are needed to accomplish your goals starting “today”.
* taken from: The Daffodil Principle
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