Every Day is a Gift!
Bryan Yager
My passion is helping leaders, teams and organizations achieve results and expand their capacity for growth and success.
First a quote: ““Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
Good morning and happy Monday! I’m back and I have missed you!
Thank you for all the notes, emails, greeting cards, kind words, prayers, show of concern, and words of encouragement.?My family and I are wrapping up our dad’s legal affairs and expect to have his home sold in the next couple of weeks.
As you might guess, the past several months have been a time of much reflection and introspection. I personally, am in a good place and ready to focus on the future and what is important to me: prioritizing my wife, family, friends, and my passion for helping others grow, learn, and succeed.
Sadly, last weekend, I was back in the same church where my dad’s celebration of life was held for yet another funeral. This time a good friend. The last time I saw him was when he and his wife served refreshments for my dad’s service just the month before.
He was a relatively young and healthy man. He went out for a bike ride and didn’t come home. He passed away of a heart attack while doing what he loved to do… bicycle. He was a wonderful husband, dad, granddad, and friend. We all miss him.
I don’t share another sad story to be a “major downer” on your Monday morning. Quite the contrary. I share my experience as an incentive for all of us to live our lives fully… today, and every day after today… starting today! Simply waiting for happiness to arrive tomorrow, next week, or next year is not a good option! Too many of us pretend to live on an island called “Someday Isle.”
Denis Waitley, a keynote speaker and Ph.D., wrote a poem called "Someday Isle" where he speaks of people who put their happiness on lay-a-way and live on an island he called “Someday Isle.” ?This is place where unhappy people believe they will be happy once their mortgage is paid, or they’re married, or perhaps divorced, where their bills are paid, and their children are grown. They believe happiness will come when they arrive not at “Someday Isle” but rather “Someday I’ll.”
At one time, I had this poem memorized, it is worth a quick read. "Someday Isle"
Every day we wake up is a gift. And like a gift, we can open it with gratitude, excitement, anticipation, and wonder, or with dread, gloom, and doom. Today is a gift… don’t send it back unopened!
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
What will you do with the gift of life today? The list of possibilities is endless; as a way of brainstorming, here are a few ideas to trigger what might be best for you and your situation:
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Every day is a gift... even Mondays!!! Don’t let this one go to waste.
Thank you for reading this missive, I am grateful for you; if I have known you for decades, we spent a day or two, or a few hours together in a workshop, or perhaps we’ve never met in person… regardless... thank you.
How will you love, live, or lead, differently, or better, this week?
Sincerely,
Bryan Yager
“Expanding Your Capacity for Success”
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