To prepare for a better tomorrow, do your best to be your best today
The aggregation of small habits leads to greatness
Do you realize that the best is yet to come? How do you feel when you read that statement? Do you think: “The best of me is behind me”? But what if you don’t know what you’re capable of unless you keep moving towards your goals and dreams? Let me give you an example. When Michael Jordan failed on his high school basketball team, do you think his career was over? Maybe he thought that at the time because not being part of the team might have seemed like the end of the road, but it wasn’t. It was the beginning of his career as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Why? Jordan loved playing basketball and spent hours practicing and honing his skills. The setbacks and defeats he experienced were part of the process of achieving greatness. They were turning points in his career and why the best is yet to come, as long as you keep moving towards your goals. Warning: You must believe that the best is yet to come and continue to take the correct course of action.
The best will come from your habits, practice, growth, setbacks, victories, and knowledge gained over the years. To prepare for a better tomorrow, we must commit to today’s tasks that lay the foundation for tomorrow. There can be no good delaying what we have to deal with now. While many of our daily tasks or habits can be tedious and time consuming, with the right mindset they will transform our efforts into accomplishments. We must do our best, whatever it is, knowing that adding small habits leads to greatness. This is the gist of what author and motivational speaker Brendon Burchard refers to in High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become Like This where he writes: “Being in your game A means that you are giving your best with a complete focus on the singular task at hand. To achieve this, you need to stoke the internal and external demands of the need. Specifically, you assume the identity of a high-performance interpreter and configures situations that require total immersion. ” How does this idea appeal to you? Is this something you are willing to invest in or are you already taking inspired action in your life? In any case, investing in ourselves means committing ourselves to what makes our hopes and dreams come alive.
Focus on the priorities that bring you to life
We are the container on which our tomorrow is created or, conversely, one in which we will live with regret. Either way, regret is nothing more than an ineffective action because we have wasted our time on things that don’t matter. To be the best today, you need to bring your whole being to every situation. What do I mean by the whole me? I mean the whole of you, including your mind, body and spirit. The person who gives his whole being to his task is inspired by a greater purpose for his life. A person who brings his whole being to his endeavors joins with his deepest intention, so that every action is guided on purpose and emanates from passion and direct intention. We are the habits of our yesterdays and the victors of our tomorrows. What we sow in our minds and sow in our hearts becomes the seed of greatness tomorrow.
So what are you committed to? What actions are giving you tangible results? We must be clear about whether our work forces us to move forward or keeps us stationary. Stagnation is a misguided purpose in the form of resistance because tomorrow’s success scares us. Yet this is the purpose of daily actions and habits – to sharpen the saw, as the late Dr. Stephen Covey wrote in his book. The 7 habits of highly effective people. It’s the opportunity to refine, review, and reward ourselves for the actions we take that bring our hopes and dreams to life.
Nothing good can come of putting aside what can be completed now because what we put off for tomorrow gets worse and we soon face another fear. Our task is to minimize fear in our lives, so that we can focus on our highest goals through purposeful actions. We must pursue the things that give us life, not make ourselves feel tired and uninspired. We must end the commitments and obligations that hinder our progress or better yet, delegate them to others so that we can focus on what makes us live. We must bring the song into our hearts because this is the song that plays to those who associate with our work. So I ask you: what are you putting off today that might inhibit your tomorrow? Can you commit to the smallest task, even when you feel less inclined to do so? Surely, if we are inspired by a greater purpose, then smaller tasks will drive our actions because a better tomorrow is possible when we commit to doing our best today.