1. Live in “day-tight Compartments”

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at t a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Shut off the past! Let the dead past bury its dead…Shut out the yesterdays which have lighted fools the way to dusty death…The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past....the future is today…..There is no tomorrow. The day of man’s salvation is now. Waste of energy, mental distress, nervous worries dog the steps of a man who is anxious about the future…..Shut close, then, the great fore and aft bulkheads, and prepare to cultivate the habit of life of ‘day-tight compartments’.”

This does not mean that we should stop putting any effort to prepare for tomorrow? No, not at all. But the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only way you can prepare for the future.

“Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

Good thinking deals with causes and effects and leads to logical, constructive planning; bad thinking frequently leads to tension and nervous breakdowns. Just listen to this advice. ‘ I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do woulod make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound t break our own physical or mental structure.

Remember “Everyday is a new life to a wise man.”

SHUT THE IRON DOORS ON THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. LIVE IN DAY-TIGHT COMPLARTMENTS.

SALUTATION TO THE DAWN

Look to this day!

For it is, the very life of life.

In its brief course

Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:

The bliss of growth

The glory of action

The splendour of achievement,

For yesterday is but a dream

And tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes yesterday a dream of happiness

And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day!

Such is the salutation of the dawn.