"Yesterday Is History - Tomorrow Is A Mystery - Today Is A Gift - That's Why We Call It The Present"

Saturday night a friend stated the quote above to me. I looked it up and it was  written by Alice Morse Earle. I thought it encompasses the essence of what I have been communicating in my blogs on happiness.

"Yesterday is history" because we don't get to relive it. For good or bad it is what it is so we accept what it was. Being unhappy because it did not go the way we hoped is frustrating, unhealthy, negative and anti-happy. Focusing on what good happened in our past is happy, rewarding, healthy and positive.

However, my suggestion is, as this saying states, "yesterday is history" so forget about it.

"Tomorrow is a mystery."  We don't know anything about the future.  We like to think we do, but we don't.  Too many of us think the future is negative.  Those people are frustrated, unhealthy and unhappy.  The ones who see the future as positive are the opposite.  However, the fact is the future is a true mystery. To think otherwise is a waste of brain power.

It's good to look forward to the future, but thinking it will be bad or good makes no sense.  We are on a journey.  The future is not a destination, it is the journey.  Don't spend time thinking about the future - just enjoy the journey.

"Today is a gift - that's why we call it the present." This says it all to me.  Most of us are lucky just to wake up today.  The older we get the more we appreciate today. We have been given a present - it's called life.  Why make the present we have been given ugly.  That really makes no sense.

The present is beautiful if we want it to be.  We have a life obligation to make today the best we can.  We have the right to see today as a treat not a trick.  We have the power to stay away from today's negative energy and focus on the gift of positive energy that is around us.

I love life.  I appreciate today.  I'm going right now to open my wonderful gift.