An ad on one of the streaming services featured a woman who won (I think it was) the Boston Marathon twice*. She’s up in years but still pushing herself every day. She has a great quote in the ad that I wanted to share, and I’m paraphrasing.
It’s not about what the day brings. It’s what you bring to the day.
There is a manifold of variations on this theme. It is probably a feature of every self-help or “be successful” book, seminar, or program. The Bible has its fair share, as – I imagine – do many similar texts. And this is not my first encounter with the concept, but this particular turn grabbed my attention.
It’s not about what the day brings. It’s what you bring to the day.
No matter what the day has planned for you, things over which you may have no control, you can control yourself and how you react to that.
Your decisions. How you spend your time. What you put into the boxes that make up every minute or hour of every day. That which you do to put the day to work for your goals.
It’s not about what the day brings. It’s what you bring to the day.
We all have ideas about what we’d like to come of our time and whatever effort we expend. There are barriers, interruptions, distractions, and derailments as often as not. Some of them are necessary and important. The interests of others can intercede and move us from one course to another.
Sh!t happens.
Are you the sort that gets moved by it or pushes through it, works around it, embraces it, and overcomes it?
There are a million different ways to read into this, and that too is what you bring to the day. It is as individual as each of us because we each have different needs and wants and goals.
And I said all of that to say this.
The Political Left’s goals take none of that into consideration. Quite the opposite. The failures of our so-called leaders during the COVID era only amplify the conflict.
In that world, it’s what their day brings to you, or nothing. It is what they want or has planned. You are a cog in their machine, and if you do not turn to the left when required, you are of no use.
We must bring to the day, every day, this reality until the fear of that life is greater than any other fear the Left is using to rob people of their own lives.
The mental chains need to be broken but before you can do that they have to see them.
We need to invest each day in finding ways to open the eyes of people who are trapped by The State in perpetual fear. People who think they are acting of their own free will but are in fact emboldening despots and tyranny.
It’s not about what the day brings. It’s what you bring to the day.
So, bring it.
* The marathoner is Joan Benoit Samuelson from Maine. She won the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Marathon and the Boston Marathon Her Boston time held up for 28 years. She’s now 64 years old.
Thanks to a reader for the missing details!
