BY GLENN MOLLETTE

We should never put off till tomorrow what we can do today.

The biggest problem with this is that we can’t do everything today.

Life has to be spaced out, and we have to hope and pray that we will have the opportunity to do some or most of what we would like.

You can’t graduate from high school until you complete the requirements. You can’t begin a new career until you obtain the job you want. Most jobs have prerequisites. Prerequisites require time. Many occupations require years of education and training. Thus, you have to do what you can today and plan what you will do over the next three or four years to prepare yourself.

If you spend every day doing nothing, then nothing is what you have to look forward to.

The musician practices long hours in hopes of performing at a future date. The runner trains daily hoping to win the 5K or even a marathon at a later date. A family may dream of a vacation, so they save their money and make sacrifices for a future outing.

The best we can do today is to do the best we can. Do what we know to do. Try to do the right thing. Have a goal or a list of objectives, and do today what is necessary to move us closer to it.

We don’t have to live with goals but if we aim for nothing we achieve nothing.  Often, our goal may be just to do a good job of whatever we currently have to do. If we do a good job every day then tomorrow will most likely be good. If we do a bad job every day, then tomorrow may not be so good. We reap what we sow. Planting good seeds in our daily lives will yield a harvest a little later, somewhere down the road.

Hard work pays off. The harder you work, the luckier you will become. The more you try, the more likely you are to succeed. If you fish, keep baiting hooks and dropping them in the water. Eventually you get a bite and even catch a fish, if there are fish in the water. There is nothing more frustrating than trying to catch a fish where there aren’t any. This applies to jobs. You can’t get a job where there aren’t any jobs. This means you have to make plans to be in a place where there is at least an opportunity.

Again, we all have limited time. We could eventually accomplish everything and anything we want if we had 500 years to do it all. But we don’t. Forty, 80, 100 years is just a flash in the pan. Thus, we need to figure out what we really want, too, because we don’t have much time to do it.

Be good to yourself. Love people, love God. Wherever you are, be all there. Our time is precious.

Dr. Glenn Mollette is read in all 50 states. He is also the author of numerous books and can be heard each weekday morning on XM Radio 131.