I'll do it tomorrow.

How many times have you said “tomorrow” when looking at your to-do list?

I’ll repot those plants tomorrow.
I’ll take those clothes to the consignment shop tomorrow.
I’ll start eating healthy tomorrow.
I’ll go to the gym tomorrow.
I’ll make that doctor’s appointment tomorrow.
I’ll brainstorm that business idea tomorrow.
I’ll reach out to potential clients tomorrow.

I met a lady the other day who was such an implementer that she couldn’t understand people who needed coaches or accountability. She was a true implementer. She got an idea and just did it. It was so confusing to her how other people didn’t just do what they wanted as soon as they had the idea to do it.

She’s the anomaly.

Maybe it was just how she’s built or who she grew up around, but she’s certainly not like most of us who often put off the things we could easily do today.

I’ll be more rested tomorrow.
I’ll be more focused tomorrow.
I’ll have more time tomorrow.

We say these things only to find that tomorrow is much like today–distracted, busy, and tiring.

This idea of tomorrow often causes us to find ourselves saying, “How is it already May 6th?! Wasn’t it just March?”

I said it the other day on a call.
“Time is flying by.”
And I immediately caught myself.

No, time is not flying by. I am just not present.

The idea of someday has us living in the future instead of here in the present. It keeps us always waiting for what’s coming and wasting this moment hoping someday will give us the answers for questions we’re too afraid to ask now. Hoping someday we’ll begin to start living.

The greatest regret of the dying is not living a life true to themselves.

Humans never regret the things they did, they regret the things they didn’t do. Especially the things most true to who they are, not what others expect of them.

That means that our greatest fear is not dying, it’s not living.
Our greatest fear is an unlived life.

That thing you’ll take care of tomorrow? Booking that vacation, calling that loved one, finally going to the doctor, starting that business–there will never be a right time.

A friend of mine sent me a note the other day saying she had finally started her LLC. After more than 10 years of talking about it, moving from job to job, only to be released by the US Government and have some quiet time, she knew I’d be proud of her for finally making the leap. She was always waiting for the perfect time, yet it took a big push to finally jump off the cliff into what she had always dreamed of doing.

When someone dies too young, we aren’t sad for the life they lived. We’re sad for the life they will never live.

We’ve all heard the stats:
- You only get 18 summers with your kids
- You only have about 80 summers yourself
- You only have 45 years to build a career
- Tomorrow isn’t promised.

What if we stopped scaring ourselves with these numbers? What if we sat so presently in this very moment (yes, this one where you’re reading these words just like I am as I am typing them) that we finally saw that the only thing we have is right now?

Because that’s all we have.
Right now.
As much as we put off to tomorrow…

So, if you knew for sure that you only had right now, ask yourself:
- what would you stop overthinking?
- what would you delete from your to-do list?
- what would you remove from your worried mind?
- what would you stop regretting?
- what would you finally stop putting off & do?

I’m not saying NOT to play for a beautiful future. But if you’re only living in the future, you aren’t living.

Now is all we have.
To fully living in the now.
xoxo
Melanie Spring