3 Reasons Why Tomorrow Never Comes

"The unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most."

- Robert Kiyosak

Author / Businessman

"I will feel more like working tomorrow."  "Tomorrow is a new day."  "Tomorrow is fresh with no mistakes in it."  "It is too late today so I will do it tomorrow."  "The sun will come out tomorrow."  And you can add a dozen sayings all of your own.  I like the one said by President Abraham Lincoln, "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

                Why is it that we have this idea that tomorrow has something magical that is missing in today?  If there is one reality that success-minded people know to be true, it is that nothing happens in tomorrow, only today.

                I would like to present three reason why it is not a good think to be putting things off for tomorrow that need to be done today.

1)  Putting things off leads to disappointment

                It does not take a person very long to discover that tomorrow never comes.  You can only live in today.  When we put things off to be done tomorrow we set ourselves up for disappointment.  Most people who are in the habit of putting things off never get to them at all.  If they find that they must do a task they keep putting off, it ends up being done at the last minute, it is done sloppily and they are disappointed with the results.

2)  Putting things off is de-motivating

                One of the wonderful things about an idea or a new assignment is that we get that rush of energy to see it done.  You can see this in people who have great ideas or dreams they want to achieve.  They talk about it with great excitement.  They will go on for hours about what they will do.  That is the problem, they talk and do not do.  They keep thinking that tomorrow they will get started, but when tomorrow gets here they have lost the energy and allow the dream or idea to be lost.

3)  Putting things off is just plain dumb

                The question is simple: Why put off to tomorrow what you can do - or at least start - today?  It makes no sense at all to be putting off something as important as an idea or a dream so you can think about it, plan for it, rest or do something else.  Success-minded people must understand that the first ingredient in the recipe for success is smarts.  You have to be smart about what you do and when you do it.  Nothing is smarter than to take action right off and do the rest of the thinking, planning, and resting as you go along.

                There is an easy answer to this problem of putting things off for tomorrow; it is to do it today.  You do not have to see the whole picture to get started.  Even if you end up changing course along the way, it is always easier to steer a moving train than one that is standing still.  Nothing happens without action!  Take action today and tomorrow will be a wonderful day.

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