One Day or Day One?

Perspectives can be found depending on how sentences are formed, depending on how phrases are uttered, and depending on the order in which words are said.

Our language and understanding of the meaning behind tone, vocabulary, and body language can all lead to different levels of perspective. Changing the perspective we have can change a seemingly awful situation into one with potential. We can move from a feeling that the world is ending to a feeling that a new world is only just beginning. From glass half-empty to glass half-full, we can train our minds to see the potential of what is to come, not the trouble of what has happened.

A key perspective change today is how you view chasing a goal, idea, or challenge you want to achieve. Do you want to do it one day, or is today day one? One day, or… day one?

If it is “one day,” it is far into the future. It is something that you hope to achieve. It is something that you think you can eventually get to when you finally start. “One day” tells you that you think it is possible, but you will get there when you get there. “One day” connotes a passive acceptance of what is to come; if it’s meant to happen, you will get there “one day.” No matter what it is, no matter how much it is gnawing at you, no matter how much you are thinking about it, you maintain the idea you will get to it “one day.”

“Day one” flips this perspective. “Day one” lets you find a cure for everything gnawing at you and finds an outlet for the obsessive thoughts. You choose to be active participators through deliberate choices to make today “day one” in pursuing all that you want. “Day one” tells you that you are going to prove yourself right, prove it to be possible, starting now. What you are after becomes easier after each day you commit effort to— starting on “day one.” It may be something you hope to achieve, but hope is not what makes you start the process; you start because you are tired of it being a thought of “one day.” You choose to commit to starting “day one” today. “Day one” starts you on the journey to where you want to be in the future.

You may get there “one day,” but today is “day one.” It starts now.