Today

Today, what do you think about when you say the word "Today"? Does your list of todo's go through your mind? Does the challenges or the joy of what is planned for Today cross your thoughts? Do you dread facing it, what lies ahead? All kinds of scenarios can be talked about, it is for me the idea of where are we at when we face Today. I mean how are we inside when we get up in the morning and take our first look at the day called "Today".

The condition of our mental, spiritual, and emotional well being will determine how those first few moments will be when we look into the new day. Have we planned for this? Have we taken the time to prepare ourselves in some way to deal with it "Today" and what all is held in that short few hours that lay ahead of us?

If you are like me going into another day I take very little thought until I open my eyes and look at what is there. Except for when I have something special planned then I think about it all the time and can't wait until the time arrives. But generally preparing myself for the new day before it gets here doesn't take much thought.

So I have been thinking that if I do something different about how I approach the new "Today" maybe I can make it better regardless what it may hold. You know we have many facets about ourselves that affect how we handle things in our lives. If we look at the different parts of who we are and try to somehow make them more positive then our approach to "Today" may be more positive in nature.

What those parts of ourselves are may vary to the individual based on how we see ourselves. What our needs are, what makes us who we are, what we think makes us tick sort of speak.
What feeds us, our desires, wants, needs that we look for. What does make us want to look forward to tomorrow? Those things is what we need to look at and see what affects or alters the way we do or want those things in our lives.

Our preparation or lack thereof does affect how we handle what lies ahead for us. How much value we place on the new "Today" will depend on if we care or think about it. If the new "Today" has something special in store for us we tend to pay attention to the time that leads up to it. We do things different, we pay more attention to the details that lead up to to that moment. What if we incorporate a small portion of that thinking to how we approach every day. What benefit would be gain in doing so?

Would we make the day better, worse or no change at all? I think better, but how do we change our mindset toward that which we face? I don't think it is easy to apply changes that stick into everyday routines we have. We do it when it is important to us, but when that importance's fades so do the changes. We loose the reason to hold to the changes and we slowly fade back to the way we were because it is what we do. There is no effort to maintain who we are and what we do everyday.

What takes effort is to change a little piece of us and keep in focus long enough so that it becomes second nature to us. I heard it said that if you can incorporate a change for 21 days then it becomes habit or routine in our lives. I think maybe it takes longer than that if you are stubborn like I am but the idea is there. Do it long enough so that you can see the benefit and know that it is worth keeping and you will.

What those changes are is purely up to you, one thing I do know is that unless you examine where you are and where you want to go you will never get there. Whether it is for yourselves or someone else you have to decide. No one else can decide for you. Because if someone else decides for you the change will not last no matter what.

This is a thought and one that I want to develop more.
James