Today will end entirely too quickly and there will never - on any day - be enough hours to do all the things you want and need to accomplish. Will you wish your life away, praying for an end to another difficult day filled with stress and apprehension? Or will you strive to do one thing well today?
We are scattered. Scattered in our focus. Scattered in our efforts. Scattered in our objectives. It's a complicated world with high and competing demands from family, faith, work and society. The only way to find your way in the maze of all this "stuff" is to take that first step, followed by another, then another. Otherwise, you will sit among the rubble of your life and be overwhelmed and lost.
You know the things that really need to be done. Sometimes, though, there are things we prefer to do, things that we can justify and call important. But what we tell others does not stop that inner voice that says, "you know what you really need to be doing." What's that old saying about stress? It's the tension caused by what you ought to do versus what you want to do?
I find that at the beginning of each day, if I will first tackle those things I least want to, the rest of the day generally falls into place with a lot less tension; and, at the end of the day, I can check that one thing off my to-do list and not have to face it again tomorrow. And that makes tomorrow a lot more appealing!
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