Now! Not Tomorrow!

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have not time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

 This applies to play as well as work.

 A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. 

You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.

 No more busywork. 

               No more hiding from success. 

                             Leave time, leave space, to grow. 

                                                           Now! Now! Not tomorrow!

 -Og Mandino

Recipe for a Happy Life in a New Year

Take twelve fine, full-grown months; see that these are thoroughly free from old memories of bitterness, rancor and hate, cleanse them completely from every clinging spite; pick off all specks of pettiness and littleness; in short, see that these months are freed from all the past—have them fresh and clean as when they first came from the great storehouse of Time.

 Cut these months into thirty or thirty-one equal parts. Do not attempt to make up the whole batch at one time (so many persons spoil the entire lot this way) but prepare one day at a time.

Into each day put equal parts of faith, patience, courage, work (some people omit this ingredient and so spoil the flavor of the rest), hope, fidelity, liberality, kindness, rest (leaving this out is like leaving the oil out of the salad dressing— don’t do it), prayer, meditation, and one well-selected resolution. 

Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humor.

Shake well and enjoy! 

Alan Batten for Unity of Charlotte