“Finish
each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and
absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a
new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I saw that
saying by Emerson on the wall of someone’s cubical recently and it struck a chord
with me. While it would be a mistake not to learn from yesterday’s blunders and
absurdities; it would be a bigger mistake to waste one’s time dwelling on the past,
rather than moving on in life with a fresh and positive outlook. So much of the
pressure and worry and fear that we experience in life is self-inflicted,
conjured up in our imaginations and not really based upon facts or what is
really happening around us. Much of that negative energy comes from dwelling on
the past.
So let us resolve
to start each day at peace with ourselves and those around us; carrying no
baggage from yesterday; but, rather, focused upon the wonder and hope that each
new day brings. Start out happy. Start out positive. Start out open and
friendly to new ideas and new people in your life. With a start like that, you’ll
go far. And when you finish today, be done with it and look forward to another
fresh start tomorrow.
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