Living in the Future

Now that I’ve wrote about the importance of planning ahead and how to do it, I think I need to mention about living in the wrong time.

Tomorrow does not exist without today. Tomorrow can never happen until we have finished today. So what will happen if we live in tomorrow? Do we truly exist? Are we truly living? Will we ever get anywhere? Some people are what I call “tomorrow people.” They are people who always decide to do important things later on. They are people that always say “I’ll do it tomorrow” or “I’ll start next week.” When that time has passed, has it been done? Have you found the promised time inconvenient and you put it off until the next day or week?

Once you tell yourself that you will do something later, you are getting in the mode of “later, later, later.” Once you put something off, it increases the chance that you will always put it off and it will never get done. Why not do it now? If you do it now it will be done, and you won’t have to worry about whether or not you will have time to do it when you had promised yourself. And then you leave yourself with one less worry, as well as training yourself to stop putting things off til later every time the time comes that you stated you would do it.

Other than never getting anything done by putting things off, “tomorrow people” don’t really live. People fantasize and plan for a fantasy future, while not enjoying and making today their fantasy.

I love today. Today is where I exist and live. Today is the only time that exists. Today is the only real time. Yesterday is only a memory. Yesterday cannot be changed. Tomorrow is yet to come. Tomorrow only exists with what we have done today. If we live in tomorrow, tomorrow may never happen. Because tomorrow cannot happen without today, and nothing can happen tomorrow if it hasn’t been started today. Make today your fantasy. Make today your goal. Build your life today. Make today the best you can. Don’t worry about tomorrow until it comes.