From The Desk of Maverick Brenton.
Subject: Making This Moment Count.
What Is A Day To You?
What Does 24 Hours Mean To You?
Have you ever asked yourself this question?
Do you ever stop and think:
What am I really trying to accomplish here and am I really using my days wisely?
If you are like most people the answer is most likely no because most people do not stop and think about how they live their life.
Thinking is not what most people do.
That is why most people remain stuck in the same patterns of behaviour.
Those patterns of behaviour are the product of habits.
You cannot begin to understand your habits unless you begin to think.
If you cultivate enough bad habits - you can send yourself down a very dark and dangerous road.
If you cultivate good habits - you can send yourself travelling through space and time towards a productive and successful life.
Therefore thinking is indispensable and it must be done, every single day.
You must question yourself.
You must question the world around you.
You must strive to deepen your understanding of reality.
Anyway..
Today I want to talk about what a day means to me.
I want to talk about what 24 hours means to me.
It’s very important that we think deeply about this.
On the surface - a day is nothing more than a certain amount of time.
It is a combination of seconds, minutes and hours that total 24 hours.
But.
Under the surface, a day is much more than 24 hours.
It is much more important than we all think.
Why?
Well a day is your entire life – it is not just your day.
A day is your entire life because your entire life consists of nothing more than a series of days that are all constructed with exactly the same amount of time.
The sun rises and the sun sets every single day and it will continue doing so – this will not change.
So..
In my mind, today and every other day - is my whole life.
What I do today shapes my future.
What I do today shapes the days that will come.
Today is a building block – today is a chance – today is an opportunity to become more.
Today is your life.
The future does not exist because the future is nothing more than another day in your life.
A day that does not exist yet but a day that will be exactly the same as today - you will have 24 hours, the sun will rise and the sun will fall.
Do you understand this?
When you rise in the morning – you need to start realising that this is your life right now.
Your life is not what you picture in your head one year from now – that does not exist and it is not even guaranteed.
Right now is your life and today is an opportunity to change everything and you will continue to have this opportunity with every single day that follows today.
You could turn everything around today.
You could become more today.
You could decide to stop running from who you are today.
Every single day is an opportunity and a GIFT.
It is a gift to be able to wake up in the morning and have a day before you that you can use to accomplish whatever you please.
But..
Here’s the catch.
You don’t have an unlimited amount of days.
No.
In fact - you don’t even have a set amount of days.
You’re going to die at some point in time and that point in time could be in one month, one year or twenty years.
You do not know.
So..
Make today count.
Make today count because today is your life and until you understand that unless you do something RIGHT NOW – nothing will ever change.
Your future will be exactly what it is today because today is the future.
All that will change is your age.
You will decay and your body will break down because that is exactly what happens with the passing of time.
You run out of time..
So do all that can be done each day.
Grab every single day by the horns and suck the life out of it because every day is a gift and you do not know how many more you have left.
When you understand this you won’t be playing around on your phone and wasting time anymore.
You won’t want to gossip and talk shit with your loser friends who are doing nothing.
You won’t want to waste another day working the job you hate while putting off the thing that you really want to do but have not done because you are too afraid.
No.
You will see.
You will understand.
You will realise that today is your entire life and unless you take action right now - nothing will ever change.
So use your time.
Use your days.
Use them to get better in every single way – smarter, healthier, stronger and happier.
Closer to your goals.
Live each day as if each day were a life in itself – because that is exactly what it is.
You awaken from the darkness in the morning with the day before you and you return to the darkness in the evening once the day has been completed.
Your life consists of doing this until you go full circle and return to the darkness through your death.
Can you see it?
Every day is a life in itself.
Every day is your life.
Why would you waste it?
Listen..
When you put your feet on the ground in the morning and you rub the sleep from your eyes - the clock is ticking.
The clock never stopped ticking because the clock does not stop ticking for you or for anyone else.
The moment you were born – your clock started ticking and you do not know when it will stop ticking.
Time has no mercy.
It waits for no man so you cannot expect time to wait for you because it will not wait for you.
Time does not care how you spend it.
Whether you are sitting on the couch snacking on junk food or you are creating your art and working on your dreams – time is indifferent to what you are doing.
It will pass by regardless of what you do and you will move closer to your death with every second that passes regardless of what you do.
That is how I see each day.
That is the attitude I do my very best to approach every day with.
I tell myself that today is a gift and tomorrow does not exist.
Tomorrow could come or it could not come – this is not known.
All that is known is that I am alive right now and fully capable of working towards my goals and so that is exactly what I do.
I grab every second that passes me by and I squeeze the life out of it.
I invest my time wisely by doing things that will make my future better – things that will make me smarter, stronger and healthier.
I do all that can be done each day because I know each day is my life.
Some days I win and some days I lose.
But.
I always move forward.
You must seize today and you must do the same before you lose more time.
Study yourself. Study the world. Eat good food. Train and strengthen your body. Learn who you are and what you really want. Be kind and help people.
Figure out who the fuck you are and go after what you want because time is running out.
Until Next Time.
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