Do You Choose Who You Will Be and What You Will Do Today?

Today will be what we make of it.

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Whether you begin your day feeling refreshed or sleepy; excited or anxious; with apprehension or confidence — today will be what you and I make it out to be.

It’s easy to forget that each day brings about something new. Yes, there are routines to every single day of our lives. We wake, we do stuff, we sleep. Frequently, we simply allow the day to just happen. We do not accept nor celebrate each day for the gift that it is.

This is something I keep returning to. As I am striving to better live in the here and now, this is a major part of that. Today, this moment, is the now. In this moment I am sipping my coffee, waking up from last night’s sleep, and writing this. Right now, in this moment, you are reading the words in the present that I crafted in the past.

Time is an illusion. The great scientist Albert Einstein made mention of this a few times.

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”

and

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a…