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May 22nd

TODAY IS THE DAY

“You get what you deserve. Instead of being a good person today,

you choose instead to become one tomorrow.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.22

“I don’t complain about the lack of time... what little I have will

go far enough. Today—this day—will achieve what no

tomorrow will fail to speak about. I will lay siege to the gods

and shake up the world.”

—SENECA, MEDEA, 423–425

e almost always know what the right thing is. We know we should
not get upset, that we shouldn’t take this personally, that we should
walk to the health food store instead of swinging by the drive-through, that
we need to sit down and focus for an hour. The tougher part is deciding to
do it in a given moment.
What stops us? The author Steven Pressfield calls this force The
Resistance. As he put it in The War of Art, “We don’t tell ourselves, ‘I’m
never going to write my symphony.’ Instead we say, ‘I’m going to write my
symphony; I’m just going to start tomorrow.’”
Today, not tomorrow, is the day that we can start to be good.