Today is the most important day of your life.

I thought you might enjoy reading this article I read the other day.  It made me stop and think. I guess this is one of my biggest fears. So much we want to do and sometimes we have so little time. Think about this piece written by Brian Knight of Daily Discipline:

My biggest fear is that I will die without fulfilling my potential. I’m afraid that at the end of my life, I will not have done half the things I thought I would do. …

I don’t fear dying. I fear dying with the disappointment in my heart that I could have done better.

I don’t fear failure. I fear failure to launch and maximize my purpose.

Give me all the conflict, criticism, pain and embarrassment that is the path to my purpose and the price of my fulfillment. I will gladly lay those bricks and all the others without hesitation or regret.

Hopefully, the bricks I lay serve more than just my life. A big part of my vision is that the people I love and the people I serve can stand on the bricks I lay long after I’m gone and continue laying their own bricks to build better things for themselves and others than I can imagine now.

I might fail, but I won’t fail to lay the bricks required for what I envision. I might reach the end of my life with disappointment in my heart, but it won’t be the disappointment that I didn’t lay the necessary bricks. It will only be the disappointment that I ran out of time to lay more of them.

Brick by brick. Do the work.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Nobody can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today a make a new ending. (Maria Robinson)