Now Is the Time!

By Cami Checketts –

I often find myself putting off important things. Tomorrow I’ll study and ponder my scriptures instead of just reading them. Tomorrow have more time for fun and I’ll play with my boys longer than five minutes. Tomorrow I won’t eat a bowl of ice cream (but I really need one tonight). Do you find yourself doing the same thing?

Let’s remember this in our brand new year: The time to get healthy and fit is right now!

Listen to all of these wise words on the subject:

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” Thomas Jefferson

“And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light ” (Romans 13: 11-12 KJV).

“I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, let me do it now; for I shall not pass this way again.” S. Grellet

“When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no, I’ll start tomorrow. Tomorrow is disease.” V.L. Allineare

It’s great to make goals and to plan for tomorrow, but we need to live for today. I enjoy having a list of lofty goals but if I don’t focus on today I’ll never accomplish any of them. Today I will eat healthy. Today I will go visit my adopted grandma. Today I will respond with patience and love when my four-year old is flailing on the ground screaming for a donut (that only happened twice so far).

It is easy to get overwhelmed if we think we have to do everything perfectly for the rest of our lives, but if we can take it one day at a time it seems more manageable.

Today is the gift we’ve been given. For some there might not be a tomorrow. Savor today. Make it great. Accomplish the things that are important and love the ones you’re with.

Cami Checketts is a wife, mother of four boys, exercise scientist, and author. www.camicheckettsbooks.blogspot.com  www.fitnessformom.blogspot.com.