Love Is The Strongest Medicine: Notes from a Cancer Doctor on Connection, Creativity, and Compassion

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Today is the Greatest

Today is the Greatest

"Today" is a Smashing Pumpkins song.  Here's some lyrics:

Today is the greatest
Day I've never known
Can't wait for tomorrow
I might not have that long

It's true.

All we really have is today.

Yesterday's gone.

Tomorrow's always a day away.

So if we take the leap and say that today IS the greatest day, it shouldn't matter if you're at work or at play.

It's all that there is.

My favorite quote sums it all up quite nicely.

The earliest instance of the quote is located in the 1932 book “Education through Recreation” by Lawrence Pearsall Jacks.

"A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself he always seems to be doing both. Enough for him that he does it well."

So...

Go live today, for today, just today.

Microstep: Look around. Notice what's there. Not on a screen, but right in front of you. Allow that view to be the greatest you've ever known.