As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Every day is a life in miniature. A fresh chance to get it right.
But what if you don’t get it right? What if you waste your day? Well, all being well, you get another chance tomorrow.
Don’t beat yourself up when you get to the evening and reflect on your day, and you feel you have spent it poorly. First, take inventory. What did you really do all day? You may surprise yourself and after some digging realise that you didn’t spend it poorly at all – you just weren’t paying attention.
And second, realise that even if you have completely wasted the day, this moment of clarity, of seeing just how poorly you have spent it, is enough to turn it into a good day, for it will teach you how not to make the same mistake tomorrow.
There are no losers in the game of life.