You know the challenge is coming.

Have you prepared? Have you done what you can? Then you have done your duty for now. Set it aside, and deal with the other things before you.

Is there some preparation yet to do? Then do it, not with the goal of making the work easier, but with the goal of making yourself better, preparing yourself for what is coming, and for what may come after that.

Don't dwell morosely on unpleasant possibilities. Find a way to avoid them, or accept that they are unavoidable and move on.

Don't idly rehearse what you have already mastered. Work on what needs work. Improve what needs improving.

Remember that your power right now is over what you do right now, not over what you will do tomorrow. So spend your energy on this moment's task.

You may do this with tomorrow in mind; just don't let thoughts of tomorrow pull you completely away from today.

The only time you can lose is the present moment.

This podcast is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Music is from the track "Which That is This" by Doctor Turtle, also distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. It can be found at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/Jonahs_Message_for_New_York/Which_That_Is_This

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