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4 min readOct 9, 2023

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗼 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘄!

This is your only life. It's too short to keep putting off doing what you want to do.

There is never a right time to do the right thing that needs to be done. Any time you put out to do a thing is the right time. When it is well done, you alone will benefit from the joy that comes with it. But if you do not do what needs to be done because you are waiting for the right time to do it, you may never do it and you'd be filled with regret and frustration. You will start feeling like a failure. You are not a failure, you just have failed to stop the voice that tells you that there is always a tomorrow to do the work that you can do today.

I remember my favourite James Bond movie. The title was, Tomorrow never dies. Truly, tomorrow will never die. There will always be a tomorrow. Whether we see it or not. If you die today, there will continue to be a tomorrow. The world will not stop for your demise. The purpose of this Newsletter is not to scare you. It is to let you know that whatever you refused to do today because there would be a tomorrow to do, may never be done. Don’t believe everything you think. That’the title of a book I am about to read. Smiles.

There will always be a tomorrow. But there will not always be you, there will not always be me, and there will not always be us. There will not always be the time, because you cannot turn back the hands of time. Like R - Kelly said in his song wishing he could do the things he couldn't do, and do those things he ought to have done. This is true about every human. You should not beat yourself up for past failures or negligence. Let me tell you one thing. Do not be deceived, you are hearing my voice now, and you say this Shevo can really talk and he is speaking to me right now. Shev, I am really going to put this into action tomorrow.

There is this particular thing I want to do but I have been procrastinating it. But hearing what you are saying now Shev, I am going to start tomorrow. Do not be deceived. I used the Word “talk” because I already voiced this on a podcast episode.

There will always be tomorrow, it never ends. You don't have to wait till tomorrow. Get up now, start it this moment. Yeah, this very moment. Your change and repentance are not in sobriety without actions, it's not in remorse without any effort to change. God was angry with the Israelites because they were fond of this. In those days, they wore sackcloth- black clothes like when one is mourning a loved one. They rubbed ashes on their body and face as proof that they were sorry and sought salvation from God.

God saw their hearts and told them through the Prophet Joel in Joel 2:13

He said "𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝒉𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡", 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑, 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑.

He was telling them instead of wearing sackcloth, starving themselves and tearing their shirts they should rather take action to change which is proof of repentance.

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You see, it's the action you take after you hear a thing that matters not your remorse fullness, and your feeling sad and filled with guilt. It is not by saying “I am sorry”. Take action to be better. Be better for yourself. Tomorrow will always be there. But you may not be there tomorrow. Don't push what can be done today to tomorrow. It is very dangerous.

𝑁𝑜𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝒉𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝒉𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛. 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑡𝑜𝑛'𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝒉𝑎𝑡 𝐴𝑛 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

There are people who use the phrase " God's time is the best, to keep living lazily, nonchalantly and they never do anything to make things happen. God's time only happens when you prepare yourself for it. It does not happen to everyone, this Life is Luck and chance and you can interpret that as grace.

Because faith without works is dead. You must put effort to do anything and then you will see the universe support you. For when there is a will, there is a way. Whatever the mind can conceive, the man can achieve. I have faith, I will keep providing for myself, until God provides. I will not wait for God's time to provide while I sleep all day. That is not faith.

You must put effort every day to defeat the Spirit of laziness and procrastination. For they have limited talents who would have been kings and rulers. But they didn't understand the principle of time. If you take care of the minutes, God will take care of the hours.

Thank you for reading.

𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐲, "𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐈 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐮𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. 𝐈 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦"... 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐨, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐈 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬.