Day-tight Compartments Flashcards
21 Words
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
—Thomas Carlyle
Day-tight compartments and the future
The best way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way to prepare for the future.
(Recommend starting day with Lord’s Prayer about our “daily bread.”)
Jesus on Worry and the Morrow
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
Thought meant anxiety in this time period.
An accurate translation would be “have no anxiety for tomorrow.”
Difference Between Good and Bad Thinking
Good thinking considers cause and effect, and leads to logical, constructive planning.
Bad thinking leads to tension and nervous breakdowns.
Five Words from WWII
One Step Enough For Me
Hymnal: lead kindly, light…
Keep thou my feet, I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me
Hourglass Analogy
There are thousands of grains of sand on top, but all must pass through the neck one at a time. You must take your daily tasks one at a time, and allow them to pass through the day slowly and evenly, or we are bound to break our own physical and mental structure.
Mantra: One grain of sand at a time, one task at a time.
The Day’s Work
“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Live just until bedtime
Perspective on the New Day
Every day is a new life to a wise man.
-live only one day at a time.
“Happy the Man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call today his own;
He, who secure within, can say:
Tomorrow, do that worst, for I have lived today.”
—Horace, written 30 BC
A warning: do not put off living
Life, we learn to late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.
Salutation to the Dawn
Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day
Salutation to the dawn
Kalidasa
Questions for Reflection on Day-Tight Compartmentalization
1) . Do I put off living to worry about the future?
2) . Do I sometimes embitter the present through regret of things that happened in the past?
3) . Do I wake up in the morning determined to seize the day, and make the most out of the 24 hours?
4) . Can I get more out of life by living in day-tight compartments?
5) . When will I start to do this? Today?
