Leadership in Energy

Never Regret a Day 

Days happen, but it is how we respond to them that give them value.

Good days give you happiness. The trips, the photos, the vacations and celebrations. We love and long for these days and wish that our lives could be an endless string of them. A true utopia of life filled with love, and light, and laughter. Every day is a good day some would say. However, that is not a true reality.

Bad days give you lessons. These are the days that make us who we are. The fires we have walked though. The trials and the tribulations. The pick ourselves up out the dirt and brushed ourselves off kind of days. Because we know that as long as we stand back up, no matter how many times we have been knocked down, we are going to win kind of days. These are the days that give us the moxie that make us kind of days. You all have one, or perhaps a hundred where you want to give up and just soldier on. Remember that you have survived 100% of the worst days of your life.

You have memories from the good and lessons from the bad. Good and bad learn from both of them. This is exactly my point when I say to “Never Regret a Day”, because they are all giving you something. You just need to be aware enough to take the lesson away…good or bad. Just take it, and move forward. There is nothing neutral in any day, there is always something, if you pause, and look deep enough to realize what it is.  Regret is a cancer that will eat you from the inside, so do not let it in. Don’t feel regret from what you did or didn’t do. Just do it, or don’t do it again, whichever fits the situation. Learn from every day.

One Day

Soon you will realize that most of your life has passed. Depending on your age, there may be more of you in the rear view mirror than in the windshield. Startling realization, if you haven’t thought about it. The average life expectancy in America is 82.7 years (blended for males and females) so at 41 years old you are at the half-way point of your life. My guess for those of you that read these ramblings is you are past half way. So take this in, and possibly internalize it. 

You made memories with people that may not exist anymore, and personally I have plenty. You are currently interacting with people that will be here when you are gone. That is the nature of life right? You need to understand that each day is not one more day, but in reality one less day. When that becomes your reality then you can start giving more value to the things that really matter. We stress and we commiserate about the day we had and the things that stressed us out. We think about how hard things may have been that we dealt with for 8 to 10 hours. But was it really all that bad?  It was just one more day, but in reality it was one less day. 

Did you give everything you had into that day? We all want to say that “I gave everything today,” but that is really just a fallacy that we tell ourselves. In reality we gave what was needed, we took what we felt we were owed, and we moved on.  That last statement is a hard truth, but one that I would guess, if you thought about for more than a few seconds is true. 

Let’s turn this over. What if you did give 100% where would you be? If you put a full effort in, what would you have accomplished? When your head hit the pillow tonight can you say “I did what I could, and I made a difference” how well would you sleep? Let’s not let a day go by that we do not give it everything.  Let’s not let it be one more day gone, but one more day given to make a difference. Let your head hit the pillow out of grace, as opposed to entitlement. That my friends is true rest. 

Again, the more you know.