{"id":20875,"date":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smps.org\/turning-tomorrow-into-today\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T16:45:23","slug":"turning-tomorrow-into-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smps.org\/2016\/12\/12\/turning-tomorrow-into-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Tomorrow Into Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tomorrow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He would be all<br \/>\nThat a mortal could be&#8230;<br \/>\nTomorrow<br \/>\nNo one would be kinder<br \/>\nOr fairer than she&#8230;<br \/>\nTomorrow<br \/>\nEach day he would stack up<br \/>\nThe letters he would write&#8230;<br \/>\nTomorrow<br \/>\nShe would think of the customers<br \/>\nShe would fill with delight&#8230;<br \/>\nTomorrow<br \/>\nBut the fact is they died<br \/>\nAnd faded from view<br \/>\nAnd all that was left<br \/>\nWhen living was through<br \/>\nWas the mountain of things<br \/>\nThey intended to do&#8230;<br \/>\nTomorrow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;Anonymous<br \/>\nAdapted by Scott McKain<\/p>\n<p>I had the opportunity to see keynote Scott McKain speak several years ago at Build Business in Chicago. McKain spoke about how to distinguish your company from others. He stressed that now is the time to start this process.<\/p>\n<p>McKain\u2019s talk was excellent, and when he closed with this poem, he left his audience speechless. I looked around at 800 of my colleagues, all of whom had the same expression on their faces.We were all running the highlight reels of our lives, and remembering all of our good intentions. I vowed then and there to not leave a list of good intentions behind when my time is done.As we head into the holiday season and begin to set our goals for 2017, this poem can help to remind us of all of the great ideas we have and have had. What if we committed to start doing today and not waiting until tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your holidays with family and friends and remember that Latin phrase, <em>carpe diem<\/em>. We should all seize the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p><em>SMPS President Craig Galati, AIA, FSMPS, CPSM, is principal of LGA, in Las Vegas, NV. He can be reached at 702.263.7111 or <strong><a href=\"mailto:cgalati@lgainc.com\">cgalati@lgainc.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should all seize the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-20875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-president","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43040,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20875\/revisions\/43040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smps.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}