Today is the most control we'll ever have over tomorrow

​There's a pressure that comes with believing my life would be easier if I knew how my day was going to unfold. An unreasonable pressure. Because that belief is believing in something that is never going to happen.

I will never have enough control over my life to accurately predict my future. Not even the next 24 hours of it.

What we can predict - always - is that whatever happens these next 24 hours, it is going to teach me something I desperately need to know about tomorrow. It's going to equip me with something that will prepare me to tackle tomorrow better than I could have without today.

It's odd, isn't it, that being present in today is the best way to prepare me for tomorrow? And that the best way to be present today is to let go of my need to know about today and trust that whatever today is, it's helping me navigate my tomorrow.

The tomorrow that makes me anxious because I have no idea what it holds.

We will never know what tomorrow holds, but we can always know today is the best teacher I'll ever have to prepare me for it.

Maybe today, maybe this year, is the best time to let go of the need to control, and instead, lean into your capacity to trust.

Trust that today isn't here holding onto secrets about life. Today is here, with great transparency, telling us everything we need to know to get ready for it. If we get to feeling like life is holding back, it's usually because we're not listening to what life is saying.

Life has little interest in giving us all the answers; it has total interest in preparing us to discover them on our own.

Life is not going to unfold many of the answers we'd like unfolded for us today. But what life will do, if we'll pay attention, with trust and curiosity, is prepare us to unfold the answers of tomorrow on our own.

Life has no problem with our desire to have all the answers. But life does insist that we pay attention to today as we pursue them.

There are no answer sheets being handed out today.

But there will be plenty of lessons.

If we pay attention.

Behold today, it's the most control you'll ever have over tomorrow.