The Reality of Today.

Identify where you are. Pitilessly

- Henry Kissinger.

The great risk of goal setting and vision stating and promoting and marketing and PR-ing and the other many aspirational declarations to the world of what we aspire to be tomorrow - is we overlook the reality of where we are today.

Which is usually messier and more uncomfortable than where we want to be. Which may be the reason we loudly shout where we intend to be tomorrow.

We tend to ignore or reject any evidence or voice about today, choosing to direct attention to where we are headed.

We may also point to where we were yesterday. Our noble and righteous history and journey, and the saints and martyrs and pioneers who sacrificed to get us here.

The result is we ignore the problems of today by spending today acting as if we live in an idealistic tomorrow or yesterday. When tomorrow comes, we act as if it’s the next day.

Until inevitably, maybe not tomorrow or the next day, or year - the reality of today punches us in the face.