Tomorrow is the world's greatest lie

​If I could remove one word from my vocabulary, it might be the word tomorrow.

I know for a lot of people, that word represents hope. But for me, looking back on my life, tomorrow became the perfect excuse to put off living today.

I had a conversation with a friend yesterday. She lost her mom when she was relatively young. She said that experience helped her realize her todays are limited. It helped her realize that today comes with a sense of urgency we often turn our backs on.

Because - well - there is always tomorrow.

What my friend knows, what we ALL know at some level, is that's a lie. Tomorrow doesn't always come.

I know tomorrow has produced a lot of dreams come true, but I wonder this morning - how many dreams has tomorrow robbed?

How many inventions didn't get invented, how many books didn't get written, how many relationships didn't form and how many prayers didn't get prayed because people were counting on a tomorrow that never came.

I believe there is a force in this world that works against us. There's a force in this world dead set on standing between us and the good we want to bring to the world.

Steven Pressfield calls it resistance. I call it the devil. You call it what you want. Even if we all call it something different, the weapon it brings to the fight is the same. The weapon is a promise it can't begin to keep.

That promise is tomorrow.

I look back on all the things I was counting on tomorrow to deliver that tomorrow just didn't come through with. And I realize, many of those things are things that TODAY was counting on ME to come through with.

Tomorrow might be the easiest lie in the world to start buying into. It's the forever hall pass to avoid doing something today.

Easy, that is, until you look back on a life and realize just how many times you used that hall pass. And just how many times the pass didn't turn out to be a pass at all, but instead a lie.

What are you sitting back counting on tomorrow to deliver that you yourself could start delivering today?

How much better would your life be - would the world be - if you took the power out of tomorrow's hands and declared, no more waiting, tomorrow. I'll take over from here.

Because my life is all about today.

I've lost my patience with the lie that is tomorrow......