BUILDING THE FUTURE FROM TODAY

‘The best thing about the future is that it comes a day at time’
-Abraham Lincoln
Everything we see and cherish never came out of the blue or was achieved in day but had undergone a process of making. The house is certainly not built in day but daily. I could not agree more with Albert Einstein when he says the only reason for time is that everything does not happen at once. The product or outcome of every event is so much dependent on the process of realizing the event in question and for that matter the process of making something is very important - when the process gets altered the outcome ultimately changes.
Every growing child has wild dreams that they would want realized when they mature. It is always heartwarming and gratifying to hear a child (mostly with smiles) tells you what he or she wants to become in the near future. We usually hear things like ‘I want to be a doctor when I grow up,’ ‘as for me I will be a pilot in future’ and other wonderful ones. However, somehow halfway through the journey of life most of these dreams that we cherished as children fade away leaving our fate to be determined by what nature brings us. Is it that as children we are oblivious of the reality of life and our dreams back then really do not count? Or is it that as a child whatever dream you have can only but be recognized as wishful thinking?
It is rather unfortunate and disheartening to find most people blaming society and institutions for what they are today and others go as far as attributing their plight to fate. ‘I never had both parents’ and ‘I do not come from a rich family’ are few of such infantile comments people make. For so long a time we have lived under ignorance which has affected our orientation and approach to life. Life is not really about what happens to you but most importantly your reaction to what happens to you. This is what Albert Ocran meant when he penned these words ‘life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.’ How right he was!
Abraham Lincoln through these words presents as with an enlightening awareness to unmask the reality of life and how we have ignorantly relegated ourselves to one of mediocrity. The future is presented to us daily, giving us as individuals leverage over what makes of us the near future. As every day of the nine month period of the baby in the mother’s womb is important for the formation of the baby, so is every day essential in the creation of our dreams. Everyday we witness in life is an opportunity to be a better person and build our dreams. It is indeed good news – whatever you want to achieve or become, you can if you resolve to take every day as an opportunity to realize it. Bryan Tracy puts this truth clearly when he says ‘the best way to predict your future is to create it.’ Everyday therefore becomes necessary as far as the creation of our dreams and goals are concerned. Our decisions today are paramount for our success tomorrow.
Let us make a conscious effort to tackle the future on a daily bases as they come and by that we can stand against the odds and achieve our dreams for our dreams whatever they might be are very remote from impossibility but close to possibility. It has indeed become urgent for us to commit ourselves to building our future and dreams knowing that we shall be worth tomorrow what we add to our lives today. It is important that we examine our lives daily on how we have developed and enabled the attainments of our goals.
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BECOME, WHOEVER YOU WANT TO BE AND WHATEVER YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE, KNOW THAT EVERY DAY COUNTS!