Someone
reading this is considering quitting.

It is not
their job that they are tempted to walk out on, or necessarily their marriage,
or anything that anyone will immediately notice. It is something far more
important … their dreams.

Someone is
about to give up on their dreams and it will show gradually and in very subtle
ways.

They are
discouraged and hopeless and the rewards just are not coming from their
efforts.

I have one
word for you, dear friend, and it is not necessarily brilliant. There will be
tomorrow. You will have countless opportunities to quit. Quitting will always
be an option for you unless and until you come to the place of deciding that it
is not. Here is the word: WAIT.

I am just
saying, wait. Don't quit today. Give it another day and get back with me. You
have no idea what inspiration, burst of energy, word of encouragement, seed of
an idea,  or Word from God is right around the corner for you.

You just
don't know. You still have some strength; use it to get through the day. you
still have some faith; apply it. You still have time; you don't have to quit
today.

Down time is
OK. in fact, it is sometimes necessary. Down time is waiting time – time to
"not quit."

There is
always tomorrow to throw away your hopes, dreams, ideas, and the investments
you have already made. You don't have to quit today.

Wait.

I know you
can do that. While you are waiting to regain your belief in yourself, use a
little of mine because I believe in you.

We can do
anything we want if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller

If you can
dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with
a dream and a mouse. – Walt Disney

Whatever you
can do or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Begin now! – Goethe

Humanity
cannot forget its dreamers. It cannot let their ideas fade and die. It lives in
them. It knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know.
Composers, sculptors, painters, poets, prophets and sages these are the makers
of tomorrow. These are the architects of heaven. – John Donne

Commit
yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a
total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in
life's most important battle; he defeated his fear of trying. – Dr. Robert
Schuller

You
have today to do, to be, to experience, and to share whatever it is that burns
within you heart to do, be, experience, and share.

You have today, and while it may not be enough for you, it is what you have for
as long as it lasts.

You have already begun today as you read these words. You have stepped into the
stream of life in the division of time that we name as individual days and you
have begun to participate in this one day that is absolutely unique, It has
never been before and never will be again.

You have it and, if you are like me, you have already wasted part of it.

You will probably waste a bit more, but just thinking about how precious the
day really is, you have also already begun to consider how you will make the
best of it. You are plotting a course for what you will accomplish and how you
will enrich other people because, having considered the remote possibility that
this is your only day, you want it to be significant.

You have today – at least part of it because you are already in it. If it
should be cut short, you will have lived this day. If you make it to the end,
you will have tomorrow. Within one short second of completing a day, we have
another.

This is not rocket science. Nor is it breaking news, but it is very, very
important.

You see, days tend to slip away and as they slip, they fall into an abyss of
neglect and despair. We look back and wonder where they went and wish that we
could recapture them and redeem all of our lost opportunities.

We cannot – except in the sense that what we accomplish today can bring meaning
to yesterday. We can slowly transform what is lost into something of meaning
and hope. It has some of the benefits of time travel without all the messy
risk.

TODAY is:

T – Temporal, temporary, and tempestuous. It is fleeting, but it is also
unpredictable and partially unknown. All we know for sure is that it will end
and that it will move in some way toward our intentions while having a mind of
its own and a tendency to surprise us.

O – Our Opportunity to do something about our lives, enrich the lives of
others, reinterpret the past, and reinvent the future. It is one of a kind and
it is pregnant with possibilities.

D – Definite. We definitely have today, right now to do something. Perhaps this
is an incentive to avoid procrastination of that thing that is burning in our
hearts. Make the D into a DO and DO the thing that you know you Desire and need
to do, that thing that relates to your Dream, that which your fear has
prevented until right now.

A – About Attitude. I use the word "attitude" repeatedly in my
acronyms, not because I can't think of any other A words, but because it is so
crucial to everything about today, tomorrow, and the future. It determines our
course; it drives our dreams; it infects our motives; it orients our thinking;
it makes us or breaks us. We must see TODAY with an attitude of joy, wonder,
optimism, and responsibility as we embrace its power for good.

Y – YOURS! It is yours. What will you do with it?

May your today be wonderful and may you have many, many tomorrows. You do have
today.