It’s all About Today.
We’re all busy with meetings, projects, deadlines, challenges, not to mention everything happening in our personal and social lives. So how do we manage it all, stay sane, and continue making meaningful progress? If I may, I’d like to share a perspective that has worked for me, one I explore in my book Make Today Your Masterpiece. What I’ve come to believe is simple: all we truly have is today. There is a poem that has deeply influenced me, and in fact, helped inspire both the mantra and the book. In The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, we read: “The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel [...]