Exercise 13

t JUST FOR TODAY

he next time you are off to school, dreading the day ahead, stop yourself. Decide, just for one
day, to think in a whole new way. Try these affirmations- they just might change the way you
feel about what it is that you do.

✘ JUST FOR TODAY, I will be as friendly as can be to the people I meet in school, at
home, in my neighborhood. I am going to treat them as if they were responsible for keeping
me in school, for bringing me up, for making my life worthwhile, and be grateful they are
there.

✘ JUST FOR TODAY, I won't assume that my job is to be a chief critic. I will try to see
the good in every situation and will look for something to praise in every person who walks,
talks, and breathes with me.

✘ JUST FOR TODAY, if I correct someone, I will do it with as much good humor and
self-restraint as if I were the one being corrected.

✘ JUST FOR TODAY, I am not going to insist that everything I do be perfect. I am not
going to try to break any speed records. I will do what is in front of me with competence, not
painful compulsion.

✘ JUST FOR TODAY, I will assume that I have adequate competence for my tasks. I will
not endlessly question whether I really deserve my titles. my laurels, and my comfortable
situation.

✘ JUST FOR TODAY, I will be grateful that I live in a society and time in which I do not
have to do backbreaking work in horrible circumstances. I will be thankful that I live in a free
country where no one is forcing me to what I am doing.

✘ JUST FOR TODAY, I will feel happy that I am in school, alive and well, and not in a
combat trench or in a hospital awaiting a major surgery.
 ✘ JUST FOR TODAY, I will not worry about "what's in it for me." I will think only about
what I can do to help out in every situation.

✘ JUST FOR TODAY, when I leave the school, I will not dwell on how much I did or did
not do well. Instead, I will look forward to the evening, and be thankful for whatever I
accomplished.

 These thoughts are not complex. Their merit is

that
they can make your days more productive and
happier. Above all, they can save wear and tear on
your most valuable asset-YOUR PEACE OF MIND.