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"How does a project get to be a year
behind schedule? One day at a time."
Fred Brooks
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I have been given many talents and I count them as gifts from my Maker. Throughout life I have discovered
that there was virtually nothing that I could not make, bake, say or do with the help of my Higher Power. At the age of three years I learned to crochet and read. I learned to draw, paint, write poetry and quilt. The fact that I was not afraid of failing had a great influence on my ability to tackle any task.
Surprisingly, when I felt that I was "grown" and needed to leave home and start a life of my own, I found that
finishing anything was almost impossible. I could start anything, but I seemed to complete nothing. Much
to my dismay I had developed the art of procrastination. Just waiting to finish anything tomorrow puts me one day behind. Day-by-day, the project gets put on the back burner and forgotten. One day at a time I eventually find that I am years into finishing some things.
Thanks to this program and its wonderful steps and tools, I have found that by working "one day at a time" I can be -- and am -- a person who starts and finishes things. This is who God created me to be ... not a person who continually puts things off. It took a lot of reading, prayer and meditating on God's Word for me to get where I am today. I am no longer a person who procrastinates. I am now a person who takes action on the tasks before me. I am far from perfect, but I am making progress.
ONE DAY AT A TIME...
Just for today I will take action and not put off until tomorrow what I can do today.