More Today than Yesterday

Inside my wedding band, I have the letters ILYMTTY engraved.  Those are the first letters of the words in the phrase "I love you more today than yesterday."  If that is true every day, then the next line of a song by Spiral Staircase in 1969 logically follows: "But not as much as tomorrow."

All that is a great aspiration for a life-long love relationship.  But I have been thinking recently, "What else do I want to challenge myself to do more today than yesterday?"  

I have recently challenged students to figure out how they interpret the phrase "business with humanity in mind" and do that more today than yesterday.

I have recently journaled that my purpose is to make more of a difference in the world today than yesterday.

If I take the attitude of "everything I do could still be done better," then I could focus on doing everything more today than yesterday.  Maybe more time.  Maybe more effective.  Maybe more efficient.  Maybe higher quality.  

In fact, more today than yesterday could form an attitude toward life in general.  I realize  that I've been trying to live that out for a while.  

Do I always succeed?  Of course not.  The key is this: in 1992 when I suggested the engraving in my wife's and my wedding bands, I don't think I was intentionally setting what could be an entire life approach in my wedding band.  

But for whatever I am sincerely committed to in life, it is a great approach to intentionally take.  

Having discovered that--the key is now to implement that approach to life more today than yesterday.  Then, to keep looking ahead and doing that day after day after day...