JUST FOR TODAY
by Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky
Just for today I will be happy. Just for today I will try to adjust myself to
what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my
family, my business, and my luck, just as they come and fit myself to them.
Just for today I will strengthen my mind. I will learn something useful. I
will not be a mental loafer.
I will read something that requires effort, thought, and concentration.
Just for today I will take care of my body. I will exercise it, care for it,
nourish it, not neglect it, so that it will be a perfect machine for my
bidding. Just
for today I will exercise my soul. I will do somebody a good turn and not get
found
out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do.
Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress as
becomingly as possible, talk low, act courteously, be liberal with praise, not
find fault with anything and not try to regulate nor improve anyone.
Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not tackle my whole
life problem at once. I will jot down what I expect to do. I may not follow
it exactly, but I will have it. It will perhaps help eliminate two problems,
hurry and indecision.
Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself and relax. In this
half hour sometimes I will take a toll of my life to see if in all my rushing
and busying that I'm not actually missing my goal; and ask myself again what
is my true goal in this short life on this great earth. And sometimes I will
think of God,so as to get a little more perspective into my life.
Just for today I will be unafraid. I will especially not be afraid to be
happy, to enjoy what is beautiful, to love, and to believe that those I love,
love me. And I would
add the words of Elliston: "How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches
it."
