Is Someday Going To Be Your Best Day
November 16, 2009 by barryk
Filed under SDL Conversations
Is someday going to be your best day? I came across those words while reading a book by John Maxwell “Put Your Dream to the Test“
The book was actually given to me as a gift by my friend Mark. He invited me to lunch to catch up, and he had an extra copy of the book and he felt I would appreciate it. No strings attached. He just knew it would strike a chord with me. Giving without expecting anything in return. The ultimate and most meaningful gift.
He was right. John Maxwell is one of my favorite authors. I could not put the book down. But this one paragraph made me pause and think. I’m sure you have had those moments.
Here is what he wrote. ” To really live the journey is what matters. If you become fixated on a destination, even a dream destination, you can miss all the great things that happen along the way. And, you miss the joy of today. If you’re convinced that someday is going to be your best day, you won’t put enough into today, or get enough out of it”.
How many of you, myself included, have thought , ” when I have more money”, or “when I get that dream car”, or for some, “when I find that someone special”, ” when I, when I when I”.
Meanwhile, life passes by and we live in the someday I will be happy. Funny thing is once you finally acquire what you have dreamed about, there always seems to be another distant, “someday when I have that”.
Earl Nightingale in his award-winning and renown program “Earl Nightingale’s The Strangest Secret
All the great authors and teachers seem to share this same philosophy. There has got to be something to it.
One life. That is all you get. I am not saying it is easy. I will not stand in front of you and say I don’t have those moments or down days.
But I think if you can try and live with an attitude of gratitude and not wait for someday, today has a chance to be your best day.
