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A few years ago a counselor told me the only tense is future. The past is past and you can't change it. The present, he said, is like an arrow in flight. When you reach up to grab it, the arrow is already gone. Hence, the only tense is future.

He suggested there were two ways to view the future, either passively or pro-actively. You can sit back and let the future come to you and do what it will or reach out and try to shape it. It's good advice that I allowed myself to forget. Today, it's advice I'm taking yet again.

The beauty of a new day is that we can awake with new resolve, new determination. Each day is a gift, even if, as Tony Soprano says, sometimes it is a "pair of socks."

What about you? What opportunities are presenting themselves today that you know you should reach for? What fire burns so hotly in your heart that you cannot contain it? I say, go for it.

If the opportunity is not right, you'll soon know it. If you're not right for the opportunity, you'll know that soon enough as well. If the timing is not right, that will become self-evident. But, you'll never know any of those things until you reach for the brass ring. And, if the stars are in alignment and the hand of providence is with you, then who knows what could come of it. (I'm sure, given time, I could come up with a better grade of cliques. :-) Hopefully, my point is well-taken nonetheless.)

Sir Issac Newton's First Law of Motion states that objects in motion tend to stay in motion while objects at rest tend to stay at rest. I don't believe anything good will come your way if you don't first overcome inertia and move toward that which you desire and prize. I've seen that very principle work in my own live and I'm sure it will work equally as well in yours.

As for me, I'd rather burn out than rust out, and as a wise old sage once said, "I'll sleep when I'm dead!"

So, today, I'm reaching for the brass ring and both taking advantage of opportunities that present themselves and making some happen as well.

That's today's life lesson relearned for me. I'm sure tomorrow there will be yet another, at least I hope so. For what is life without learning, even for us old dogs.