Day-Tight Compartments

This is a concept I love. It works for me. Maybe it will work for you. It's from my favorite self-improvement book of all time, "PsychoCybernetics" by Dr. Maxwell Maltz (the original version -- I promise to read the new Dan Kennedy edition, Gordon.)

"Live life in 'daytight compartments'...Look neither forward nor backward beyond a 24-hour cycle. Live today as best you can. By living today well you do the most within your power to make tomorrow better.

"This becoming more aware of what is happening now, and attempting to respond only to what is happening now, has almost magical results in relieving the 'jitters'. The next time you feel yourself tensing up, becoming jittery and nervous--pull yourself up short and say 'What is there here and now that I should respond to? that I can do something about?"

And for sci-fi geeks, here is the George Lucas version:

Qui-Gon Jinn: "Don't center on your anxieties, Obi-Wan. Keep your concentration here and now where it belongs."

Obi-Wan: "But Master Yoda said I should be mindful of the future."

Qui-Gon: "But not at the expense of the moment."

Just a thought for your day.

(Although I've found it more feasible to live in "week-tight" compartments. After all, a week feels like a day anyway.)

John