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From: "Mark's Motivation Mail" <motivation@chattertonworld.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 05:59:58 +0800
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient>
Subject: MAKING THE MOST OF TODAY by Denis Waitley
What each of us is doing this minute is the most important
event in history for us. We have decided to invest our
resources in THIS opportunity rather than in any other.
It is helpful to remember this when we consider the passage
of time. As I write this, my mother is in her eighties and
I will never see fifty again. As the years pass, I am
acutely aware that the bird of time is on the wing. At my
fortieth high school reunion, I saw people who claimed to
be my former classmates. We all had big name tags printed
in capital letters so we wouldn't have to squint with our
reading glasses on trying to associate the name with each
well-traveled face. It was only yesterday that I was really
enjoying high school. What had happened to the four decades
in between? Where had they flown?
To the side of the bandstand, where the big-band sound of
the late 1940s and 50s blared our favorite top-ten hits,
there was a poster with a printed verse for all of us to
see. I read the words aloud: "There are two days in every
week about which we should not worry, two days which should
be kept free from fear and apprehension."
"One of these days is YESTERDAY, with its mistakes and
cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control all the
money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot
undo a single act we performed or erase a single word we
said. Yesterday is gone."
"The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW, with
its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise,
and its poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our
immediate control."
"This leaves only one day, TODAY. Anyone can fight the
battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the
burdens of those two awful eternities - Yesterday and
Tomorrow - that we break down."
"It is not the experience of Today that drives us mad, it
is remorse and bitterness for something which happened
yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us
therefore? Live this one full TODAY."
Malcolm Forbes believed the important thing is "never say
die until you're dead," and he lived that example to the
hilt. It is, as we realize when we suddenly attend our
fortieth high school reunion, a short journey.
But it is difficult to be depressed and active at the same
time. So get active! Live TODAY.
event in history for us. We have decided to invest our
resources in THIS opportunity rather than in any other.
It is helpful to remember this when we consider the passage
of time. As I write this, my mother is in her eighties and
I will never see fifty again. As the years pass, I am
acutely aware that the bird of time is on the wing. At my
fortieth high school reunion, I saw people who claimed to
be my former classmates. We all had big name tags printed
in capital letters so we wouldn't have to squint with our
reading glasses on trying to associate the name with each
well-traveled face. It was only yesterday that I was really
enjoying high school. What had happened to the four decades
in between? Where had they flown?
To the side of the bandstand, where the big-band sound of
the late 1940s and 50s blared our favorite top-ten hits,
there was a poster with a printed verse for all of us to
see. I read the words aloud: "There are two days in every
week about which we should not worry, two days which should
be kept free from fear and apprehension."
"One of these days is YESTERDAY, with its mistakes and
cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control all the
money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot
undo a single act we performed or erase a single word we
said. Yesterday is gone."
"The other day we should not worry about is TOMORROW, with
its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise,
and its poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our
immediate control."
"This leaves only one day, TODAY. Anyone can fight the
battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the
burdens of those two awful eternities - Yesterday and
Tomorrow - that we break down."
"It is not the experience of Today that drives us mad, it
is remorse and bitterness for something which happened
yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us
therefore? Live this one full TODAY."
Malcolm Forbes believed the important thing is "never say
die until you're dead," and he lived that example to the
hilt. It is, as we realize when we suddenly attend our
fortieth high school reunion, a short journey.
But it is difficult to be depressed and active at the same
time. So get active! Live TODAY.
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