Live One Day At A Time

Live one day at a time. Take each day as it comes.

Have you lost your job?
Are you in deep debts?
Do you grieve over the breakup of your marriage or relationship?
Has your adult child betrayed or rejected you?
Are you sick and bedridden?

Whatever your loss, even if it’s severe or seems hopeless, remember this simple truth: everything is impermanent.

You have no way of knowing what tomorrow may bring. You cannot predict the future. None of us does.

Because everything is impermanent, things can change sooner or later for you.

So the best thing you can do is live one day at a time. Live the best ways you know how today.

“Each day, I write, take walks, pray, and do my best at work. I count my blessings. I let go and practice being hopeful,” said Boris who lost contact with his children after his wife secretly brought them out of the country.

That’s one day at a time for Boris. And he learns that when he can focus on one day only at a time living his best, he feels less depressed and hopeless.

Check the basic ways to do the vital task of living one day at a time, especially in times of loss or trauma, namely:

• Take good care of your mind and body.
• Enrich your daily routine with mindfulness and variety (not autopilot).
• Stop overthinking and worrying over “what ifs” that only wastes time and energy.
• Set meaningful, achievable goals for yourself each day.
• Congratulate yourself every small win you achieve.
• Remind yourself that you only have a limited number of days on earth, so each day that passes by is lost to you forever.

“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’ – yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’ “ (James 4:13-15)

“Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:15–17).

“So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12)

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