Preparing for tomorrow
Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms.Shelton believed in readiness.Students remembered how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of eighth-grade on the chalkboard .They quickly protested that the words were not on their level and they couldn’t learn them.Their teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these words .She said that she would teach them something that should be given.Ms.Shelton ended by saying that one of the students in the classroom could go on to greatness,maybe even be president someday,and she wanted to prepare them for that day.
Ms.Shelton spoke those words many years ago.Little did she know that someday one of her students---Jesse Jackson---would take them seriously .She believed that if they were well prepared,they could achieve high goals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said,“People only see what they are prepared to see.” If that’s true,then it is also true that they only become what they are prepared to become.And many things in life is just about getting ready.
“I want to be doing something more significant with my life than what I am doing now,” a young man once said to me.He felt what he was doing was just not that important.Other people have said things to me such as,“I only wish I had a meaningful relationship.” And,“I’d really like to get a better job,but I just don’t see how.”
You fill in the blanks.What is it you would like to happen that isn’t happening?Perhaps the answer is that you are not yet ready .Maybe you need more time to prepare before you are truly ready for that which you desire.
Think of today as another chance to prepare yourself for the exciting future you are looking for.Today is not wasted.If you desire more from life,then you can use today as training.For you will experience only what you are prepared to experience.Something wonderful can happen.And you can use today to get ready for tomorrow.