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I hope you are not postponing your life till tomorrow, because if you are, I intend to shake you a bit today! Yesterday is gone, tomorrow does not exist, when we get to tomorrow, if we ever do, we’ll call it today! This truth leaves one with a shocking reality that what you really have power over is today. In fact if we want to make it more extreme, now! Does it then not seem strange, that many are living lives they are unhappy about today, in the hope that it will change tomorrow? Don’t procrastinate your happiness, don’t postpone your joy, don’t leave off to an unknown future the best parts of your life. Haven’t you heard – “Tomorrow, tomorrow… is always a day away!”?

This reminds me of a story I once heard. Of a rich Consultant that traveled to his village to let his air down, have fun and enjoy the peace and tranquility of the country side. While in the village, he decided to go fishing with on of his old time buddies who was a fisherman by profession. He set up an appointment with his friend and they set out to fish together. While they were on the waters, the rich consultant saw possibilities and told his friend. “Do you know that your business can be much bigger than this? You are living way below your potentials”. The fisherman looked at him, puzzled, “really? But why would I want to make my business bigger?” The rich consultant was puzzled at why a human being would not be aspirational and went on to explain further.

“There is huge potential for this fish business, and you are catching enough fish to be able to sell and invest in another boat. After you buy another boat, you can get another fisherman trained to work for you, grow the business and buy many boats. In fact you can get to expand so fast that you can buy a ship. This way you’ll start doing big supplies to neighboring villages and even to the main towns. After a while you can consider reducing your costs on transporting a Big ship by selling some other things that are in the village but peopel need in town. Before you know it, you’ll need to do an IPO on this your business, and really grow it to become a mega brand.” Then the Fisherman asked, “then what?” To which the rich consulant answered “Then when you are old and tired, you resign, come back to the village, have fun with your family, fish once in a while and drink under the tree with your friends.” “Hmmm”, said the fisherman, “But I’m already doing all that now, why do I have to go through all that stess just because I want to enjoy what I’m already enjoying :)”

Now there are some aspects of this story that create a reality shake and some that need to be seived.

Key Lessons

1. Don’t procrastinate your life. Don’t hope for a different yonder or tomorrow. Make sure that your life today has elements of what your tomorrow should look like. Do you hope to one day be a blessing, be a blessing today. Do you hope to one day impact lives, do it today. Do you hope to have fun and rest well, have fun and rest well today. Today is the tomorrow you saw yesterday, today is the dream you dreamt yesterday. Bring your tomorrow forward. Tommorow will not be different, it will only be better. Whatever you want your life to be later, start it in a small way NOW!

2. Don’t play music to earn money to play football. I hear so much of I’m just doing this so I can make money to do what I really love! What a waste! Either find a way to enjoy what you are doing or quit, while you are ahead. “Quitting while you are ahead is not quitting” – American Gangster. You should not be caught alive or dead in a vocation that is not making you happy. If you are not happy today, you are not likely to be tomorrow. Even if the conditions of the present are not pleasant, they are pleasant to the one that knows it’s a necessary part of his/her process. Nobody who sees you singing songs will recommend you for shooting balls. Let your life contain elements of your desired future today. I’m not waiting to grow old and die to go to heaven, I’m carrying heaven in my heart today.

3. “When purpose is unknown, abuse is inevitable” – Attributed to Myles Munroe. If the Rich consultant knew his life goals before he embarked on it, his journey would have been different. It’s good to ask the strong question, what do I want to be remembered for. If you answer this often enough, your activities are likely to be aligned. Why are you here? What gives you passion, what makes you cry, what keeps you motivated, what do you love to do? Start doing it…

4. Life is in the journey, not the destination. Imagine that the fisherman loved the adrenalin of growing a business like I do. Imagine that he would have enjoyed creating jobs for thousands of people? Imagine how far in the sea he would have seen and the travels he would have had to make, suppose those things were important to him? If they are, he would have let go of the journey because he felt the destination was similar. It’s not always about the destination, it’s about the journey. We are born on one day, and we die on another day, the rest of our days is the journey. The journey is important. Where are you now? Is it essential to your journey? Are you enjoying the cruise? Enjoy your journeys! If it “aint werking” for you, make it work, If it can’t, let go and move on! How sorrowful will it be, if the God of the universe decides your stay is over, and your best years are still ahead?

Can someone say my best day is here!??

“Tomorrow belongs to those who live it today” – Adeolu

Adeolu Akinyemi

Adeolu Akinyemi

30 thoughts on “The Unknown Tomorrow”

  1. Akinpelu Lawson
    June 12, 2008 at 11:51 am

    Soul-searching stuff.Well done!

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  2. Ikenna
    June 12, 2008 at 11:52 am

    Thanks Deolu.
    God bless you

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  3. felix
    June 12, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    Just tooo much… permission to post it on my site, need my people to read this exactly the way it is, …. if i could write it better i’d have twisted it a bit… 😉

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  4. Royal_Prince
    June 12, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    “I’m not waiting to grow old and die to go to heaven, I’m carrying heaven in my heart today”.
    ————————————
    Spot on!

    One principle stands out here. I call it “the now and within principle” for you to enjoy/xperience/partake of it tomorow, you must have it now and within you. Jesus told them not to look for the kingdom of God ‘cos it is within them and yet He told them to pray “thy kingdom come”. For you to partake of the kingdom to come, you must have it already in existence now and within you. Reminds me of the creative process stuff.

    A master piece as usual.

    Luv U!

    Reply
  5. Aanu Adepoju
    June 12, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    “I’m not waiting to grow old and die to go to heaven, I’m carrying heaven in my heart today”.

    One of the best quotes of all time.

    Reply
  6. Topsie
    June 12, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    My best day is here! Thank you.

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  7. Gbenga Kolawole
    June 12, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    Deolu,
    What else can I say than GOD BLESS YOU.

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  8. Dapo Aremu
    June 12, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    My best day is here! Thanks

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  9. Peter Oluokun
    June 13, 2008 at 4:48 am

    My best day is here! ‘Life is in the journey not the destination’ Thought provoking words and inspiring too, thanks once again Adeolu, your cruise of inspiration will never run dry in Jesus name.

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  10. Adeolu Akinyemi
    June 13, 2008 at 8:15 am

    @All

    Thanks.

    @Felix,

    Carry Go

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  11. Abere Ibukun Daniel
    June 13, 2008 at 8:53 am

    Good Morning Deolu,
    Another mind blower from u,thanks,kip it up.To my there reader enjoy good aspect of life you can enjoy now.REALITY IS IN THE MOMENT and not TOMORROW.Have a nice day.Luv u all.U AR THE BEST.

    Reply
  12. Adeolu Festus
    June 13, 2008 at 9:09 am

    No matter how persistent the illusion of time may be the illusion of the past, present and future is still an illusion – Albert Einstein

    Don’t hope for a different yonder or tomorrow.

    Thank you.

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  13. Cyril
    June 13, 2008 at 10:23 am

    Good Morning Deolu,

    Another wonderful piece from you again. I am eternally grateful to God for coming across your web.
    Thank you for this yet another timely one…

    Today is the best day of the remaining part of my life.

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  14. Ifeoluwa
    June 13, 2008 at 11:25 am

    Very true! I am blessed as ever!
    There is actually nothing called tomorrow but a today in d future tense. We only have yesterday and today and the tomorrow of our yesterday soon becomes a today and eventually a yesterday…its such a cycle. What makes the difference is the quality of life we live today. Its said that “yesterday is a lost cheque, tomorrow is a promissory note, today is the only cheque at hand so spend it wisely” We should therefore live today in the light of tomorrow that is already here because we build into the future today what we will one day permenently be.

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  15. John Eniola
    June 13, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    Great stuff, great thinking. You have explored one of the hidden secrets of success; grace to conquer fear and step out in faith, TODAY. Can we use this piece (with acknowledgement of the source) in our Church magazine. Regards

    Pastor John Eniola
    RCCG, Hosanna House
    Cavan, Republic of Ireland
    Tel: +353872039025
    +353494368535

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  16. Amire Dare-Philips
    June 13, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    This is a master peice, a call to re-align ones daily activity for greater profitability and purpose fulfillment. Thanks so much

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  17. seunoyin
    June 13, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Great minds never procastinate. If there is a better time to d it,it is now!!.It is getting better forward.Thank you so much.

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  18. Solomon James
    June 13, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    Great stuff Deolu, really the future is NOW!

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  19. Blessing Olubunmi
    June 14, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    Deolu, God will continue to bless u.This is indeed a mind opener young people are meant to read this before and after their university education.

    Reply
  20. damilola
    June 15, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    My best day is here!thanks deolu.A real eye opener.

    Reply
  21. Dolapo Olus
    June 16, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    Hmmmmm….. thought provoking.

    Enjoy your now on the way to that desired future….. which will actually be NOW by the time you get there.

    Reply
  22. Oderinlo Abidemi
    June 17, 2008 at 12:15 am

    as always thought provoking
    ve missed alot oo, but i m using me now to xatch up

    Reply
  23. Okungbowa
    June 17, 2008 at 5:43 am

    you are a blessing,
    thanks deolu

    Reply
  24. Nike Adenle
    June 18, 2008 at 6:39 am

    Bonjour Deolu,
    this as usual wakes up the mind, and mine is slowly slipping into sleep mode. I ask permission to send it to a couple of my friends to digest. We all need wake-up calls and this is one.
    God bless you as you continue to bring out the Gold in us all.
    Have a blessed day.

    Reply
  25. Derin O
    June 19, 2008 at 10:32 am

    Hmm! Deolu,

    God Bless You. Indeed, you are a blessing. It’s actually rather prophetic, for a while now, I’ve been battling with this same issue in my mind and it was just yedsterday, that I made up my mind that I was going to do something drastic and unconventional about it – I’ve been playing music (probably because i have the skills) to earn money to play football. However, yesterday, I came to a breaking point and finally got a revelation of what my next line of action today should be and then, I read this piece.

    I bless the Lord for your ministry and indeed, with a Godly love, I Love You and You are blessed.

    N.B
    We need to talk, I’ll call you.

    Reply
  26. Gbenguz
    June 21, 2008 at 11:46 pm

    You are a blessing to this generation.How can we help Obama become the next A president and to fulfil scriptures that’the meek shall inherit the earth’
    Crank it up brotherman.Lov u with the love of the Lord

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  27. Adekeye segun
    June 24, 2008 at 9:40 am

    Deolu,

    this is an inspiring piece i think i should have it by my bedside,study, in my car in short as a reminder on my phone. With this message the world would be under my feet as the bible said am more than a conqueror.Thanks brother

    Reply
  28. Eugene Williams | Power of Motivation BLOG
    June 29, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Absolutely brilliant post!

    Everyone should believe in his/her present and not in yesterday or tomorrow. The best time to think and put efforts is today – right now.

    Thanks a lot for sharing.

    Reply
  29. alfred
    July 1, 2008 at 4:35 am

    deolu

    Thanks for the inspiring articltes,i am blessed.

    You are a blessing to this generetion.

    Reply
  30. omozele
    April 16, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    hmm, is there really a tommorrow. some people have hope in the tommorrow they know nothing about that is why a wise man said’ a day well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tommorrow a vision of hope.4 a person to be priviledged to seeing tommorrow, the person must have made judicious use of his today.

    Reply

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