Day 5: Today is the Only Day to Achieve Any Great and Worthy Purpose

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Hi,

Welcome to day 5 of the self challenge week and I am with you.

After coming from summer vacations, we went to one of my friends places to pick up our car which was parked at her home. When we arrived at her place, she warmly welcomed us by serving a welcome drink.

The moment I took my first sip, I asked her, “what is this?” and “how did you make this?” Because the drink was not only refreshing in its taste but was also refreshing in its looks. I found her summer drink simply superb.

I coaxed my friend to share its recipe with me and soon I was amazed to find out that the drink was too simple to make and I too could prepare it at my home within few minutes. What all she did was this: she mixed the sugary watermelon ice cubes in serving glasses of lemonade.

Wasn’t that too simple? Of course it was.

In fact, I would highly recommend you to try this drink before the summer bids us adieu.

Now when I reflect on that drink, the flavour of which I still relish, I would say that we too, could make each day of our life refreshing and beautiful like that summer drink if we just use a little bit of creativity and imagination and mix them well with little bit of efforts on our day to day basis. Because as Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt advises, “make use of your imagination to make your day ideal and fantastic. You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.”

So let us be ready and proactive to use our imagination and creativity to make our days ideal and fantastic.

What we all can do is this. Sit down today and ask these questions and then write their answers down so that we know what makes our day an ideal day.

• What makes our day look ideal to us?
• How would we love to start our ideal day?
• How would we want our ideal day to end?
• What are all the things that we would want to finish in a day?
• How much time would we like to devote with our own self?
• How much time would we like to take rest and sleep?
• How much time would we like to spent on recreational activities?
• How much time would we work on the things of great importance?
• How much time would we like to spend with our members of family?
• What are all the things that we would like to delegate to others so that we could create more free space for ourselves and  for our members of family?
• How much time would we like to spend on learning a new skills?
• What would be all the biggest distractions in our day?
• What would stop us from achieving all our goals in a day? Would they be external or internal? How would we deal with those barriers and noise elements?

After thinking about an ideal day, we could imagine about the ideal week and ideal month and an ideal year and then strive to do and accomplish the things that we want to do on a day to day basis.

We must make sure that we write down our answers because writing brings more clarity. It brings more focus to the tasks that we want to achieve.

So before we become champions of our lives we must master our days. The above questions are same but their answers would differ for all of us. We must understand that because we all are similarly different, we all are differently similar as well.

And since, “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life,” as says William Morris, therefore, we must start changing the things at micro level (each day) so that we become peak performers at macro level in our life. By planning and starting our day in this way we will have maximum time for doing the thing that are most important to us and are not simply urgent.

Remember the words of Swami Chinmayananda that “Today is the only day to attempt any great and worthy purpose.” So we must ask every day , “are we all ready to make our each day full of great and worthy purposes?” Because we all know that “tomorrow never comes.”