This is the first of my
#Trust30 writings. Today’s inspiration comes from
Liz Danzico:
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tracks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays. How would you describe today using only one sentence? Tell today’s sentence to one other person. Repeat each day.
My Assignment
Rather than describe today, I’d rather make sure that I experience a day worthy of description, so I’m changing today’s assignment a bit. My sentence:
Today is what I make it.
Of course, the sentence is a mantra to start your day, but it’s also an assessment tool for ending your day – simply change one letter: Today is what I made it. Is it what you were trying to achieve? If not, why? How could you have changed your tack?
Passenger of Circumstance or Captain of Your Ship?
Our culture tends toward victimization. ‘Have a great day.’; ‘How is your day going?’; ‘Did you have a good week?’ – these common sayings assume that our days are delivered upon us, as if we’re helpless victims. Add to that assumption the societal predilection to pray for someone whose circumstances are negative — and not to pray for strength to persevere, but to change their circumstance.
Although we can’t control external forces and circumstances, we can control our responses to challenges/problems/successes – and it’s our responses that determine whether we succeed in achieving our goals. It may take longer – it may take more resources – it may even change the nature of the goal – but we make the choices that determine the direction and the speed.
So, ‘Today is what I make it!’
