What is your attitude toward the future? What do you expect it to hold? Do you think things will get better or worse for you?
Do you expect to have more or fewer opportunities? Do you expect your marrige(or most significant relationship) to get better or worse? Do you expect to more or fewer friendship? Do you expect your faith to be stronger or weaker? Do you expect to be in better or worse physical condition?
If you're like most people, your answers reflect that you expect the days ahead to be better. Now, let me ask you one more question: WHY do you think that? Is your expectation based on anythingother than a vague hope that your life will get better? I trust it is. But for many it is not. They just figure that tomorrow is bound to be better, but they have no strategy for making it better. In fact, the worse some people feel about today, the more they exaggerate how good tomorrow is likely to be. They have a lottery mind-set.
Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. They have spent their lives reaching for the future. What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them...and the first thing they knew the future became the past. Hoping for a good future without investing in today is like a farmer waiting for a crop without ever planting any seed.