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It\u2019s no secret I am a big fan of Dave Ramsey.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just because I like his stuff, but I know the man and have a great deal of admiration for him.\u00a0 So I listen to what he has to say more carefully than I do most other public figures.<\/p>\n
Of all the things that I\u2019ve ever heard Dave say, and one that sticks in my brain most is, \u201cToday I will live like no one else, so tomorrow I can live like no one else.\u201d\u00a0 And I can say that Dave practices what he preaches.<\/p>\n
It can also be said another way. That is, \u201cdo today what you\u2019ll be glad you did tomorrow.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n I hate to tell you that\u2019s the definition of discipline, because most of you will run as fast as you can.\u00a0 You see discipline as some hard, difficult, terrible, nasty thing.\u00a0 Today\u2019s twenty and thirty-somethings act as though the words \u201cdelayed gratification\u201d are curse words or archaic ideas of a Victorian age, thankfully long gone.<\/p>\n So say it this way, \u201cDo what you don\u2019t want to do today.\u201d<\/em> I\u2019m talking about the things that you know you should do, like exercise, eat with some degree of self-restraint, study, pray, engage; get up off the couch and work hard.\u00a0 You know those things.\u00a0 It\u2019s called self-discipline.\u00a0 You might want to call it self-mastery<\/strong>; that I tell myself what to do.\u00a0 I don\u2019t let my body and my emotions run my life.\u00a0 It is through my mind and my spirit that I demand that my body and emotions fall in line.<\/p>\n We do indeed reap what we sow.\u00a0 And it\u2019s almost always not convenient to do the hard, smart thing in the moment.\u00a0 But when you can get up, suit up, show up, and do the next right thing, tomorrow is a bright future for you.<\/strong> If you can\u2019t, not only are you going to be stuck, but tomorrow is a sad stream of stories that make you a cautionary tale, rather than someone we write books and make movies about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s no secret I am a big fan of Dave Ramsey.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just because I like his stuff, but I know the man and have a great deal of admiration for him.\u00a0 So I listen to what he has to say more carefully than I do most other public figures. Of all the things … Continue reading “Do Today What You\u2019ll be Glad You Did”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}