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One Day at a time
A few short years ago a very good friend of mine that I admire tremendously
gave me some simple advice that literally changed my way of setting goals and
looking towards the future. I’ve always been over anxious on many issues and
sometimes would over-whelm my friends and business associates by expecting
results much too quickly when my friend told me to always look at challenges,
goals, and dreams ONE DAY AT A TIME.
About 4000 or so years ago there were written words that said:
“ Look well to this one day, for it and it alone is life.
In the brief course of this one day lie all the realities of your existence;
the pride of growth, the glory of action, the splendour of beauty. Yesterday is
only a dream and tomorrow is but a vision. Yet, each day well lived makes every
yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well,
therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life.”
Of course you always hear me speaking about DREAMS, FAIRY TALES, AND MIRACLES which I live my life by, however, I always had that one piece missing until I
heard those simple words…ONE DAY AT A
TIME.
Our lifetime literally consists of years, months, weeks, days, hours,
minutes, and seconds. The one basic unit we live by is a single day; therefore,
try to live successfully one day at a time. Reaching goals and achieving
successes is nothing more than many successful days all strung together? Each
day you need to acquire some success and results to start a foundation of creating
a successful life for yourself. You can only live ONE DAY AT A TIME. What is
important is what you did that day to perform successfully. You must know the
difference between activity and productivity. Activity is keeping busy with no
end results in mind while productivity is a results oriented task of doing
something that will have positive end results to move you forward in your
career and business or personal life. The happiest people I’ve worked with are
those who perform to the best of their ability each and every day.
I hear those words ringing in my ears, ONE DAY AT A TIME, every time I
encounter a problem and cannot thank my friend enough for mentioning this to me
regularly in the form of notes, calls, emails, and letters. Once I learned the
power of this simple message I controlled all the problems I created for myself
that caused worry and frustration and despair. Worrying about what happened
yesterday or dreading what might happen tomorrow is irrelevant. It is then I
realized that worrying about yesterdays that are now history and the tomorrows
that may never come only create problems and stunted my quest for achieving my
goals by not spending all my time on creating good positive results ONE DAY AT
A TIME. I’ve have learned the hard way that anyone can fight any battle for one
day.
Reaching goals daily and having those goals completed before going to the
next goal is the simple formula that comes from this philosophy developing
habits of successes therefore assuring that one day you will be successful in
achieving those dreams. That is when FAIRY TALES become reality and MIRACLES
happen because of handling your DREAMS ONE DAY AT A TIME.
Thinking this way will give you the opportunity to overcome all hurdles and
obstacles as you handle situations with patience. This simple plan will build
mental strength and the ability to turn obstacles into opportunities. As the
saying goes, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” There is also
another saying from one of my mentors I live by which is, “For things to change
you have to change…for things to get better you have to get better.” To be able
to abide by this philosophy there will be times you will have to perform at
your best when you are not in the mood to do so. Once you accomplish this feat
you will feel the power within you to tackle any situation ONE DAY AT A TIME.
We, as human beings, create a habit to take things for granted
underestimating our powers to overcome fear, depression, and challenges and
look for an easy way out of tough situations by just giving up. The great
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said words that have been repeated
millions of times by the successful people on this planet…simple words…NEVER
GIVE UP... NEVER, NEVER, GIVE UP!
I’ve learned in life that the history of us as human beings is the ability
to turn failures into successes, losses into wins, and conquer the odds. I
remember George Foreman answering a reporter who asked, “What makes you think you can do what no one has ever
done before…winning the heavyweight championship of the world at the age of
45...an impossible feat?” His answer was straight forward, “I am doing this only because I believe I can…I
don’t care what others believe or think....I know what I feel and that is
what’s important.” You see… Big George made his comeback at the
age of 38 and took ONE DAY AT A TIME and 7 years later he made history by
knocking out Michael Moorer to win the heavyweight
championship of the world for the second time at the age of 45. George is now
training to make a comeback at the age of 55. Can George do the impossible
again? I won’t say he can’t because George Foreman will take this challenge ONE
DAY AT A TIME and when you do… anything is possible.
I want to say thank you to my friend who taught me to look at every
situation ONE DAY AT A TIME
because I’ve come to learn that many hundreds of thousands of people everyday
are on the edge of achieving their goals and dreams but only give up one day
too soon. So KEEP PUNCHING…ONE DAY AT A TIME!
By Kerry Daigle
Kerry Daigle, a successful entrepreneur since 1965, has businesses that take
him literally around the world, from
He has its own radio show: “Keep
Punching with Kerry Daigle” that offers motivation and
inspiration to a global audience.