Who you are, what you wear, what you drive, how much money you make, how long you’ve been with someone, how many faithful customers you have, or what kind of shape you were in yesterday means nothing compared to today. Every single day you must keep making investments, keep growing, keep getting new customers, keep pushing for greatness. Your victories last week won’t carry you through next week. The exercise you did last month will not carry you into next month.
Yesterday never helps you for tomorrow.
Will you make time or will you make excuses? It’s unfortunate that so many people spend time regretting yesterday, stewing over it, planning their life around it when it’s over, gone, and finished! “Yesterdays” only ruin your ability to create a tomorrow.
Consider your marriage:
For a marriage to prosper you have to keep your attention on the future of it. Things like dates, dinners, plans, vacations, new adventures, mutual goals, and projects are what will ensure your future together. The marriage will not survive on the love of yesterday, but only on what is created now and in the future.
Consider your business:
Let’s say you want to build your customer base and haven’t been doing that for some years. The only thing that matters now is that you see how you want your future to look and then take the actions necessary TODAY in building your customer base from here on out. No reason to spend time on yesterday as it is only filled with regrets, remorse, guilt, etc.
Consider your fitness:
If you’re chugging coke and slamming hamburgers every night or drinking too much alcohol and not working out, you’re not going to be energetic. Your body will get soft because your waist size is the result of what you do with your body and what you put in your body. The salad and chicken breast you ate yesterday will not cancel out the donut you ate this morning. The future is a summation of your actions today, not what you did or did not do yesterday!
It’s what you do today that matters.
Be great,
GC