Take It Easy

 

I recently read a great piece of advice: “Be hard on yourself in the morning and easy on yourself at night.”

  The idea is that at times we keep ourselves up at night beating ourselves up over what we didn’t do, yet we often let the opportunities that are there slip away in the morning.

  It's about regret. We usually can’t do anything after the fact. The best way to eliminate regret is to kill it before it is born. Procrastination seems like a solution in the moment, but it's a drain for the future.

  Proverbs 3:27-28 says, “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.  Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come back, and tomorrow I will give it," When you have it with you”.

 If we act when we can, we won’t have to be so hard on ourselves later.