# Chapter 277

Tomorrow. That was her answer. This is a person who asks us for help every single time we see her. And we say yes every time. But since we always see her late in the evening and what she wants help with, exercise, happens in the morning, we call her the next day to go walking or biking or to the gym with us. Tomorrow is always the answer. Tomorrow is the same as never. I have been listening to the neighbor bemoan how she needs to lose 80 pounds for months and months and the answer is tomorrow?? Tomorrow never gets here, tomorrow never sees you moving, tomorrow won’t hold you accountable for what you do today, tomorrow is just an indirect sabotage to all your dreams.

Tomorrow never arrives. It is the ultimate procrastination word. But today is the only day you will ever have. Today is the day you are building the future you want to have. If you are not building today the future you want, you are tearing it down, a slow destruction perhaps but a destruction nevertheless. You cannot do otherwise. Time is a fulcrum and you are on one side of the fulcrum peak or the other. There is no stasis. You are never in neutral gear in life. Always building or always destroying, there is no neutral, it is always forward or reverse.

I would tell you to “decide!” and let it go at that, but you already have decided and you already made forward or reverse start its movement toward or away from the future you think you want. This is not easy to stop and think about how you are likely sabotaging yourself and then reverse a decision, to commitment to actions that will bring you the future you desire. This is damn hard work. But “tomorrow” can never be a part of your vocabulary again.