VITAMINS FOR THE MIND by Ron Reynolds #3366 (Wednesday, August 28, 2013) Just Another Day? Welcome to another day in your life. If you live to be age eighty, you’re going to have experienced about 29,200 such days, and very often a ‘day’ goes by as though it has no importance; after all, it’s ‘just another day’ – the same routine, the same traffic to contend with each day as you go to the same job, doing pretty much the same thing with the same people while we keep feeling the same way about how things are going for us. That’s the danger in settling into a routine – the predictability of it all causes us to take things for granted and to coast along while we accept most things that go on in each one of those 29,200 days as ‘the way life is.’ Now, some of those days are great days; we laugh, we have fun, we go to a party, we take a vacation, we go to a move or a ball game, or in so many other ways find joy in some of our days. Others, however, aren’t very good days; someone else got the raise or promotion, someone else bought a bigger house or a new car and we can’t, and someone else went to an exotic trip on the other side of the world while we cooked weenies in the back yard. In your eighty years, you’ll experience 42,048,000 minutes – in one year, 525,600 minutes and in each year, 31,536,000 seconds. If, in everyone of the minutes of your life, you had a chance to make a new decision that could start the process leading to a new and better life and lifestyle for yourself and for your family, wouldn’t you think that somewhere along the way you would make such a decision and carry through with it? After all, over forty-two million minutes represents a lot of chances for making some very dramatic changes, wouldn’t you agree? And some people, like my Uncle George – who I wrote about a few days ago – went around complaining about never having had a chance. It seems to me that he, along with everyone else, has had lots of chances to make just one choice about doing something instead of just ‘meaning to.’ Like Uncle George, his time ran out – he used up all of his seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. Like so many people, we use up our time while we ‘mean to’ do something of substance with our lives and I am reasonably sure that’s because we have so much time; after all, lots of people will read this and proclaim – “I’m only thirty! I have lots of time to decide to take greater control.” If you’ve been reading these messages for a while, you know that’s not true; at about age thirty-five, we’ve started to become enslaved by our schedules, by our routines and by our habits, and soon we’ll be on the auto-pilot mode wherein all we do today is about what we’ve done yesterday and last week, last month and last year. All our ambition begins to go into rapid decline even before we’ve used up the first forty of our eighty years. Today is, after all, much more than just another day, and if it goes unused and if our current chances go unused, nothing changes – and who wants that? The views expressed on this post are those of Ron Reynolds and do not necessarily reflect the views of AdvoCare.
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:00:01 +0000
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