Today is the first day…
…of the rest of your life.
Yes, it’s a bumper-sticker cliche. But after yesterday, the first full day of President Obama‘s first term, it was hard not to think about the power of First Days. The first day of school. The first day at a new job. The first day after getting out of a troubling relationship, or the first day in an exciting new one. First days–they can be exciting!
Right now, as January starts to draw to a close, the New Year’s resolutions people made on the first day of 2009 are starting to wear a little thin. What was it I said I would do? Eat better? Exercise? Get up earlier? Be nicer to my dog? Oh, who remembers??
But this year, in honor of this past Tuesday–a day of new beginnings–I hope you can recommit yourself to the resolutions you made three weeks ago. I hope you can see that every day is a First Day, an opportunity to return to the deepest hopes and convictions you have for yourself, for your work, and for your relationships.
With each rising sun, you can say it again: today is the first day!
