Today

Today

Today is here. I will start with a smile, and resolve to be agreeable.

 I will not criticize. I refuse to waste my valuable time.

Today has one thing in which I know I am equal with others—Time. 

All of us draw the same salary in seconds, minutes, hours—24 Golden Hours each day.

Today I will not waste my time, because the minutes I wasted 

yesterday are as lost as a vanished thought.

Today I refuse to spend time worrying about what might happen.

 I am going to spend my time making things happen.

Today I am determined to study to improve myself, for tomorrow

I may be wanted, and I must not be found lacking.

Today I am determined to do things I should do.

 I firmly resolve to stop doing the things I should not do.

Today I begin by doing and not wasting my time.

 In one week I will be miles beyond the person I am today.

Today I will not imagine what I would do if things were different.

 They are not different. I will make a success with what material I have.

Today I will stop saying, “If I had time,” for I never will

 “find time” for anything—if I want time I must take it.

Today I will act toward other people as though this

 might be my last day on earth. I will not wait for tomorrow.

 Tomorrow never comes. 

Elder John Longden Conference Report, Apr. 1966, 39; or Improvement Era, June 1966, 512