Make The Day Yours

It’s a Monday. Yesterday was marvelous. Tomorrow? Who knows. So, you have today, and it happens to be a Monday. Make the day yours.

I’ve been bi-vocational (nothing to brag about) for more years than I can imagine. From Ministry that occupies almost every hour of the day, through a technology job that can easily consume your mind and energy, it seems I’ve always been doing more than time allows for. In other words, life has been busy.

Add to that my personality and druthers. I’d druther be doing that, instead of doing this…go there, instead of here…be that, not this. It’s probably a downfall that keeps me pointing a hundred different ways – all at the same time! I’m also guilty of over-thinking something and not getting “it” accomplished. Prior Proper Planning Prevents Problems…

It’s easy to let the day drag you about and leave you discarded like road detritus that will disintegrate unless the street sweeper claims you.

Or, you can take over and tell the day that you don’t belong to it; rather, “it” belongs to you! Some like the Latin phrase, “Carpe Diem” – Seize the Day. That may say what I’m trying to relate, but it’s an old hatted used phrase that doesn’t speak to the way I feel this Monday morning.

This Day is Mine!

Here are some favored quotes about taking ownership of this day, which happens to be Monday!

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Theresa

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day, boys, make your lives extraordinary. ― Robin Williams

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. It’s here! Seize it and make it yours!