Daily Planning

God , give me courage to do what is right . Courage to fight for Honesty , Goodness, Justice and Truth . Courage to choose the good in my youth. Courage to own when i 'm in the wrong and Courage to face the day with a song. Courage to guard my thoughts and my tongue . Courage to choose the right when I'm young ......Quest of Excellence
Life is made up of days and hours.

How do you spend the 24 hours in your day? Do you live like a mere passive spectator allowing your days to slip by as you get older and older ?Or do you take care of your days and thereby your life, like a champion who is in control of the situation?

Is your day a part of your life or just another day that comes and goes like a silent breeze stirring nothing inside as well outside? As you spend the day, do you think you are in charge of your time and working for your goals or feel that you just did nothing ?

Remember, each day must in some way contribute to your over all goals. Each day must in some way be connected to the rest of your life. Each day must in some way should contribute to your general welfare and happiness.

There is no exaggeration in stating that you take care of your days and you will take care of your life. Are you conscious of how the time passes in and our of your life each day? Do you plan your activities?

If you are aware of these things, which normally many are, it is great. You are one of those intelligent persons with an eye towards happiness and success. But if you are not doing it for one reason or the other, perhaps some little rethinking may be required.

The following suggestions are helpful in shaping the day and keeping oneself organized. Remember ultimately it is your responsibility to make things happen or to become one of those highly effective people.

1)Wake up early

2)Start the day with some positive thoughts. Use positive affirmations if necessary.

3)Express gratitude for every thing that has been happening in your life.

4)Affirm your faith in God and in your self.

5)Make a resolution to perform at least three kind acts during the day.

6)Select the most important task for the day and resolve to do it as perfectly as possible.

7)Greet your family members with a warm smile and send them your thoughts of love silently.

8)Chose your food carefully, eating only that which do not cause indigestion or flatulence.

9)Spend some time in prayer or total silence.

10)Resolve to spend some quality time with your family members sometime during the day.

11)Try to learn something new during the day, either about your job, yourself, some new word or skill or some new subject.

12)Find time to perform some tasks that contribute towards achieving your life's primary goals.

13)Spend sometime in serious reading to stretch your mind and improve your thinking.

14)Review the days performance as you close the day. Note the areas where you performed satisfactorily and the areas where you need improvement. Can you recollect the happiest moments of the day? Can you summarize what you have learned newly during the day? Think and analyze.

15)If you are interested or if you have time you can maintain a dairy. and write down the important events of the day.

16)Take adequate rest.

17)Look for tomorrow with a positive mind.

18)And finally consider the following:

If the average life span of a person is 100 years, he has 36500 days only to live. Of this at least for 5000 days (say from the age of 85 onwards) he would be too old to undertake any exerting activity. From the remaining 31500 days subtract the number of days you have already spent.

How many days are then left in your account? And how do you propose to spend them? Just think about it.