Short motivational YouTube monologue (Rick Torrison) that urges beginning each day focused on the present using the prayer-line 'Give me this day my daily bread.' Warns against carrying 'residue from yesterday' and worrying about tomorrow, and gives practical productivity steps: be intentional, master your calendar, use 'to-done' lists, and choose and complete the single most important task each day.
Hey, when you woke up this morning, did you think about what you needed today to be successful, or did your feet hit the floor running? Right. You started checking emails, building your to do list, texting yourself for the things you needed to remember to do today, all before you made it to the bathroom to brush your teeth and turn on the shower. You know, we get up early in my house before the sun. The other day, I woke up earlier than normal to the sound of this clicking and tapping going on in my bed. As my eyes started to adjust, I noticed this eerie glow coming from the other side of the bed. It was my wife. She was on her phone texting someone about something. When asked what she was doing, she said, working. Does that sound familiar to anyone? You know, I've shared before that I'm a man of faith, and my faith impacts not only who I am, but everything I do. There's a Bible verse I've used as a prayer to start my day recently. It's actually part of the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples to pray. It's only seven words of that prayer. Are you ready for it? Here it is. Give me this day, my daily bread, man. That sounds simple enough, but let me share a couple thoughts that I've been learning and leaning into personally. The first is found in the first four words. Give me this day. We're not asking to change yesterday or provide for tomorrow. We're focused on today. Easier said than done. But there's two challenges that often try to steal my focus from what's most important for today. We often wake up carrying the first one, this idea of the residue from yesterday. John Maxwell, Zig Ziglar, and originally, I think it was Norman Vincent Peale. They were all quoted with this saying, yesterday ended last night. Wow. Simple, yet hard to live by. As long as we continue to focus on yesterday, we always find ourselves a day behind. The second challenge that attempts to steal our focus on today is we worry too much about tomorrow. Man. There's this great Van Morrison song. It says this. Don't worry about tomorrow. They ain't gonna help you none. Matthew tells us not to worry about tomorrow because tomorrow is gonna take care of itself. I've always said this. If you wait for tomorrow to plan, you'll wake up in your future without a plan. So what do you do about this? How do you get the most out of today? The answer is in the next three. My daily bread. Begin each day by asking, what is the bread I need to be successful in that day? Trust me, the world is already racing and screaming for you to engage. Somebody needs something from you even before you know what you need yourself. Don't give in to the wooing of the world. Here's a couple things you can start doing today. The first one is be intentional. You have to have a plan and you've got to work the plan. Intentionality involves mastering your calendar to maximize your time. Don't create to do lists. Create to done lists, which points to this last thing. Know the one thing and do the one thing. If you knew you could only get one thing done today, what would the one thing be that you would do? Finish it and then do the next thing. And so on. When you are intentional and purposeful, the master of your calendar, you not only know what the one thing is, but you're doing it. And the results are always productive and powerful. It all begins with a simple prayer. Give me this day my daily bread. Nothing more, nothing less. Y', all, thanks for joining me and focusing on that one thing that you need to do today to be successful. Until next time, I'm Rick Torsen and I'm believing your best is yet to come.
