Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It's good to have a big — picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you're always living in the future, you're never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God's timing, you may not think He's working, but you can be sure that right now, behind the scenes, God is arranging all the pieces to come together to work out His plan for your life.

Many things lost in life can be restored; however, time misused can never be recovered. Once the sun goes down, the day is forever gone.

For first must give place to last, because last must have its time to come; but last gives place to nothing; for there is not another to succeed.

Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.

We can't choose whether we will get any more time, but we can choose what we do with it.

Management expert Tom Peters gives a perspective on this. He suggests, "Don't rock the boat. Sink it and start over." If you desire to be creative and do something really innovative, that's sometimes what it takes. You must destroy the old to create something new. You cannot allow yourself to be paralyzed by the idea of change.

There is a willingness to change: Clayton G. Orcutt declared, "Change itself is not progress, but change is the price that we pay for progress.

Making a difference isn't a matter of if; it's a matter of how and when.

Isabel Moore aptly stated, "Life is a one-way street. No matter how many detours you take, none of them leads back. And once you know and accept that, life becomes much simpler.

When I'm swimming with the tide, my progress has little to do with the speed and strength of my strokes. It is determined by how fast the tide is moving. Swim with it and you make fast progress. Swim against it and you move very slowly, no matter how hard you work at it.