The best time is now!

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8 years ago

Just a thought, how would it feel to always do what you are meant to do now, today without procrastination? .

“Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.” Benjamin Franklin

I want to live my life moment to moment, relishing every bit of it, enjoying, savoring, and embracing time spent in solitude as much as time shared with others.
When I am not living my life in the present moment, by thinking about the past or projecting into the future, I am missing out on the only reality that exists, the present.
So many times during my day I consciously pull myself back to the moment by taking a few deep breathes. Feeling the earth beneath my feet, looking up at the passing clouds, I remind myself to be present to feel and to enjoy all of my experiences as fully as possible. Maybe that’s why we call this moment the present; it’s where all the gifts lie. Let today be your wake up call to remember, there is only the present moment and the time for living your life is now.

The fore-most strategy of the enemy to make you fail is procrastination. You must always realize that is the time to be creative and productive. If you want to make an easy job look difficult; then just keep putting it off. In fact, a duty dodged is like a debt unpaid, it is only deferred but we must still come back and settle the account at last. Work is the best weapon ever invented for killing time. Most individuals really usually attach a condition to their stepping out. They keep waiting until things change, until there is more time, until they are less tired, until they get a promotion, until they settle down, until this, until that. It always looks like there are some major events that must occur in their live before they step out. ‘One of these days’ is really ‘None of these days’. The by and by never comes.

Those who desire, but don’t act will always breed stagnation. Always do today what you want to postpone until tomorrow. Do not allow idleness to deceive you; for while you give him today, he steals tomorrow from you. Indeed, nothing is as fatiguing as the eternal hanging of an uncompleted task. When an individual gets into the habit of wasting time, then they are sure of wasting a great deal that does not belong to them. Benjamin Franklin once said, “One day today is worth two tomorrows. What may be done at anytime will definitely be done at no time.”

Life is indeed like a taxi. The meter keeps ticking whether you’re moving or standing still. The successful person does the thing that others never get around to. Whatever the fool does at the end, the wise man does at the beginning. Prolonged idleness paralyzes initiatives. Tomorrow is the busiest day of the week. In it, there is a hill to climb. Never think that waiting will make it any smaller. A sluggard will always take a hundred steps simply because he would not take a concrete bold step in due time. If possible, make the decision now, even if it is in the future, there is indeed danger in delay simply because it is always better to reap two days too soon than one day too late. A man who waits until the last always ends up being pitied. While the foolish enjoys the little he has, the wise would hunt for more. The way to hunt for more is to simply utilize your odd moments. A wise man called Arthur Brisbane also once said that the man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life.

Therefore, act now, because Procrastination is indeed the mother of Frustration!

All the best in all of your endeavors!

Violet.