Today Matters

You know, in life we always make alot of decisions. In a day we are stressed up because we make so many decisions, and sometimes these decisions don't help us.

Sometimes we create things to worry about. Sometimes we are stressed because we make decisions and think things that we shouldn't even think about. Some people always feel their days are miserable, and everyday is a bad day for them.

I was browsing through my uni's library shelves, and to my surprise there was a book written by John C. Maxwell. The book is called "Today Matters".

In that book, John described why many people do not succeed. The reason is people live their everyday lives in the wrong way. We sometimes bring pressure and stress upon ourselves, when we shouldn't even be worried about that.

He reshuffled our lives and came up with 12 things that we only have to decide in our entire lives. Only 12 things we need to think about, and he called it the Daily Dozen:

1) Attitude : Choose and display the right attitudes daily
2) Priorities : Determine and act on important priorities daily
3) Health : Know and follow healthy guidelines daily
4) Family : Communicate with and care for my family daily
5) Thinking : Practice and develop good thinking daily
6) Commitment : Make and keep proper commitments daily
7) Finances : Make and properly manage money daily
8) Faith : Deepen and live out my faith daily
9) Relationships : Initiate and invest in solid relationships daily
10) Generosity : Plan for and model generosity daily
11) Values : Embrace and practice good values daily
12) Growth : Seek and experience improvement daily

These are the only things that we should be thinking and doing. Our lives are categorized into these 12 categories. These are not the things that we should add to our worries. But these are just the defragmentation of life. Our lives should be reshuffled, and the outcome is the Daily Dozen.

Notice that the keyword in every category is DAILY. The reason is we can't do anything about yesterday, because it is gone. Neither can we do anything about tomorrow, because it has yet to come, and for some people their tomorrows may never come. So the rationale behind this is, today matters. Do your best today. Live out the full potential of today.

You might not get all those 12 in a day. You can divide it. Choose which categories that you lack most, and start initiating them first.

I love John C. Maxwell's books. They are great books that teach us how to live our lives right and proper. Success doesn't come in a flick of your finger. Success comes from what you did yesterday. So start today, and live your everyday with great purpose and determination. Success will be determined by what you do TODAY.