heyday

Are your best days before you or behind you?  Do you remember the great days as the years that pastor so and so was at the church?  Or, are your best days now, or are your best days just around the corner.

I believe it was William Bridges that wrote about an organizations heyday.  A heyday is defined a s the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity.  The author made an interesting statement, something along the lines of this:  The heyday of an organization is not the time when it is thriving and the motor is running on all cylinders.  The heyday really is the time when difficult decisions were made that set up the organization, staff or family to thrive.

So its not the joy of greatness that is truly great, but the joy of the hard work and the fortitude shown along the way that are the times to be celebrated.  Those difficult moments are the real heyday.

A couple has saved enough to retire comfortably.  Is the heyday now, or when they made tough decisions along the way to be frugal?  A baseball team is in the playoffs.  Is the heyday now, or when the decisions were made to cut players and practice hard?

What you do today matters.  Your hard decisions today can set up your future.  Don't pine for the heyday to come.  Reach down inside of yourself and make the difficult decisions that shape tomorrow's greatness.

It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.