If we don’t take care of the present, all our futures will be lost because it’s impossible to have a brighter tomorrow when we squander the day we have.
So ask yourself: What are you doing right now to secure the days after today?
Here’s a great perspective from Melanie Wright:
❝I’ve found a way to explain accountability that is starting to resonate with people who once fought me over it.
Every decision, word, action, interaction or inaction plants the same seed.
As this seed grows it absorbs the nutrients (good and bad) dumped into the soil from your past. Soon you’ll have a tree with hundreds of branches. The branches bear fruit and more seeds, which in turn creates more trees. Then through the years, from this one little seed, you’ll have a dense forest exposing potentially thousands of vulnerabilities or opportunities.
It will grow like this unless you prune the tree or rip the seedling from bad soil.
Accountability is not screaming at yourself for letting a good seed grow in the wrong location, or blaming yourself for letting a bad seed grow in the first place. Accountability is getting over yourself, ignoring your ego and rejecting the self-blame of a bad decision. Accountability is facing the reality that pulling the seedling (or even cutting down the young tree) is much easier to deal with then facing the murky forest you’ll have later.
It’s also being aware that we each have our trees. While you’re laboring to destroy five rotten ones, so am I. I might be able to help with one, but you’ll have to remove the others on your own. If not, your forest will become unmanageable.
The best thing then is to check your soil and quickly weed out the saplings you don’t want to grow. Now.❞
My wonderful friend wrote that!! Go Melanie Wright!!!! 💋💕💯🇺🇸🗽🦅♥️🤍💙