CARPE DIEM- SEIZE THE DAY!

Life is strange and so unpredictable. Some people are here one minute, and gone the next! Therefore we should not only seize the day but also the moment – Carpe Diem and Carpe Momentum. Do it now. Later never comes, there is only now.

Start your day off well. Before you get out of bed each morning, say a prayer or repeat your personal affirmation giving thanks for the day and all the positive things you will see and achieve. Make a conscious decision to make this the best day of your life and meet with pleasure, success and fun. If you believe it, it will most certainly happen. A timeless secret for lifelong success is to live each day as if it were your last.

GEMS:

• The clock of time is wound but once,

And no man has the power to tell
Just when the hands will stop
At late or early hour.
Now is the only time you own.
Live, love, toil with a will,
Place no faith in tomorrow;
For the clock may then be still.

• The past, the present and the future are really one- they are today.

• Young people live in the future. Old people live in the past. Wise people live in the present.

• Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery and today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. Be present minded, in light of planning (for future) and analysis (of the past).

• Yesterday is a cancelled cheque, tomorrow is a promissory note and today is ready cash. Use it.

• Time is like a river…. You cannot step on the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass you again. Cherish every moment of your life.

• Every man’s life lies within the present: For the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

• We should take from the past its fires and not its ashes

• One of these days is none of these days; today is the day to start the big job.

• Today is the tomorrow you didn’t plan for yesterday.

• Today’s decisions are tomorrow’s realities.

• Now is the glorious moment, grasp it, treasure it up and hug it, utilise it to the utmost.

• Your future is hidden in what you do daily.

• I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

• This instant is the only time there is.

• One today is worth two tomorrows.

• Ideas are worthless. Intentions have no power. Plans are nothing . . . unless they are followed with action. Do it now!

• Today's action becomes tomorrow's habit.

(from my book "10 Fundamental Rules of Success", Publishers: PUSTAK MAHAL, New Delhi)

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