Take Time to Accomplish

Daily routine: Wake up to the alarm blaring and wanting to hit the snooze. Get ready for the day, heading out with a piece of toast for breakfast so you aren't late to school/work. Get home and take care of the chores around the house, do homework (hopefully). Eat a big dinner because lunch was likely skipped. Spend too much time socializing digitally. Crawl into bed and slip into the oblivion of sleep.

This sounds all too common for many people I'm sure. All of those things need to be done yes, but no one really likes the feeling of following a routine that they would rather change. So where is the time for accomplishments? A wise man stated how the successes of tomorrow depend upon the accomplishments of today. So what is a personal accomplishment that we've had today.

Here's mine for the day, I read a lot of my homework so I'm ahead in a class, and I was able to exercise to feel good. Today, I did not earn an A, but I took some time and worked towards it. I didn't break my work out max, but I worked towards it. We don't have to change the world every day of our lives. That would just be way too crazy; but there are simple things we can do on a daily basis that give us a sense of accomplishment that helps. How many of us have the intention to go to the gym but realize we don't have time to get there? That's very common, but we can all do something to exercise in our own homes. That is an accomplishment.

Now, there is a difference I believe in accomplishing something and having a great success. I believe a great success is getting a job you've been searching for, an accomplishment would be turning in the application that gets you considered in the first place. A success would be getting an A on the mid term that nobody wants to take, accomplishing something would be setting aside half an hour each day to study for it. I believe that we have less control over our successes, but complete control over our accomplishments. A success would be making it through the hardest trial of your life, your accomplishments would be putting one foot in front of the other through the refining fire.

So take time to realize the accomplishments you have, realize what you're accomplishing today, even if it was a day of complete failures. We don't need to get the job in order to work towards one, we don't need an A in order to learn, and we don't need to see the light at the end of the tunnel to push forward. We can look back on a day of routines, something we just do everyday, and we can find a moment or two to accomplish something. We can set aside 10 minutes to clean our room but the house doesn't need to be spotless. We can read a chapter in a book we enjoy, but we don't need to finish it today.

We need to have priorities yes, and there are things with a deadline, but for the things that aren't planned, the things we want to do, we can always find a moment or two to slow down, enjoy life, and accomplish something.

Never live today in a way that it reflects yesterday so perfectly you can't tell the difference. Treat the day as a new day of opportunities and adventures.