I will forget yesterday with all of its trials and tribulations, aggravations and setbacks, angers and frustrations.

The past is already a dream which I can not retrieve a single work, or erase and foolish deeds.  I will resolve however that if I have injured anyone yesterday through my
thoughtlessness I will not let this days sun set before I make amends, and nothing I do today will be of greater importance.

I will not fret the future, my success and happiness does not depend upon straining to see what lurks dimly on the horizon but to do this day what lies clearly at hand.
I will treasure this day for it is all I have.
I know its rushing hours can not be accumulated or stored like precious grain for future use.
I will live as all good actors do while they are on stage, only in the moment.  I can not perform at my best today by regretting my previous acts and mistakes or worrying about
the scene to come.  I will embrace today’s difficult tasks, take off my coat and make dust in the world.  I will remember that the busier I am the less harm I am apt to suffer. The tastier will be my food, the sweeter my sleep and the better satisfied I will be with my place in the world.

I will free myself today from slavery to the clock and calendar.
Although I will plan this day in order to conserve my steps and energy, I will begin to measure my life in deeds, not years, in thoughts not seasons, in feelings not figures on a dial.  I will remain aware of how little it takes to make this a happy day.
Never will I pursue happiness because it is not a goal, just a by product and there is no happiness in having or getting, only in giving.

I will run from no danger I might encounter today because I am certain that nothing will happen to me that I am not equipped to handle with your help.
Just as any gem is polished by friction I will become more valuable through this days adversities and if you close one door your always open another for me.

I will live this day as if it were Christmas, I will be a giver of gifts, and deliver to my enemies the gift of forgiveness, my opponents tolerance, my friends a smile, my children a good example and every gift will be wrapped with unconditional love.
 
 

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate of jealously or selfishness.
I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest because  for every action good or bad is always followed by an equal reaction.  I will plant only good seeds this day.  I will treat today as a priceless violin.

One may draw harmony from it and another discord yet no one will blame the instrument.
Life is the same and if I play it correctly it will give forth beauty, but if I play it ignorantly
it will produce ugliness.

I will condition to look upon every problem I encounter today as no more than a pebble in my  shoe.  I remember the pain so harsh I could hardly walk, and recall my surprise when I removed my shoe and found only a grain of sand.  I will work convinced that nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.  To do anything today that is truly worth doing I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in with
gusto and scramble though as well as I can.

I will face the world with goals set for this day, but they will be attainable ones not the vague and impossible variety declared by those who make a career of failure.

I realize that you always try me with a little first to see what I would do with a lot.
I will never hide my talents.  If I am silent I am forgotten, if I do not advance I will fall back, if I walk away from any challenge today my self esteem will be scared, and if I cease to  grow even a little I will become smaller.

I reject the stationary position because it is always the beginning of the end.
I know the world is a looking glass and gives back to me the reflection of my own soul.  Now I  understand the secret of correcting the attitude of others and that is to correct my own.

I will turn away from any temptation today that might cause me to break my word or lose my self respect.  I am positive the only thing I possess more valuable than my life is my honour.
I will work this day with all my strength content in the  knowledge that life does not exist with wallowing in the past or peering anxiously at the future.  It is appalling to contemplate the number of painful steps by which one arrives at a truth so old, and so obvious, and so
frequently expressed.  Whatever it offers, little or much, my life is now.

I will pause whenever I am feeling sorry for myself today and remember that this is the only day I have and I must  play it to the fullest.  What my part may signify in the
great whole I may not recognize, but I am here to play it and now is the time.
I will count this day a separate life.  I will remember that those who have fewest regrets are those who take each moment as it comes for all that it is worth.
This is my day!
These are my seeds....

 Thank you God for this precious garden of time.