Today, Tomorrow…

Daily Meditation 880–7/28/2024

A succinct DM for today.

We’ve got an expression here in YouDaimonia which we’ve written about probably 50–100 times (out of our 880 days!):

Act in a manner consistent with the person you aspire to become.

Put another, equally useful way:

Act, TODAY, in a manner consistent with the person you aspire to become TOMORROW.

And that feels right, doesn’t it?
We eat at a 300 calorie deficit each day today in order to tomorrow lose that weight.
We save $5 buying the marked down ground beef today in order to have the down payment for the house tomorrow.
We practice 10 minutes of Czech today in order that we are fluent in Czech tomorrow.

While none of these are literally “tomorrow,” you understand the idea — we do small things today and everyday in order that one day we have the money or are healthier or are a master at something.

And that’s really the root of success.

If you woke up tomorrow suddenly aged 50 years overnight, you’d keel over dead as a doornail with fright.