Orison Swett Marden wrote “There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow”.
Are you always impatient for tomorrow, excited about what the day might hold? Or are you fearful, anticipating the worst and dreading the challenge of another day. In anticipating tomorrows work load what is fearsome is too great a task. When undertaking a journey however long, looking too far down the road can make it seem endless, but we can only complete it one step at a time, and so it is with work.
Thinking too deeply about what has to be completed often turns a small task into a mountain of work, and like all mountains when you are standing at the bottom, it is impossible to know if you can climb it because you can’t see the top.
So we give in before we start, we convince ourselves we won’t be up to the task, and we are fixated on how many mistakes we will make, but the only way not to make mistakes is not to do anything.
We let fear take control; but fear feeds on itself, so fill yourself with courage. Sigmund Freud said “Out of your vulnerability will come your strength”. All of us possess extraordinary powers deep inside us that can achieve anything if we allow them to surface and over power our doubts; so don’t put limits on what you will achieve tomorrow, tomorrows failures are still today’s ‘what ifs’.
“Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it” Lucy Maud Montgomery
Title quote by Lyndon B Johnson