Sunday Blog 210 – 23 November 2025
Let me introduce you to Tomorrow Me. Like Today Me, only better. Tomorrow Me is definitely going to enjoy doing all the things Today Me signed it up to do. Also, Tomorrow Me will smash these tasks in a twentieth of the time Today Me would take to do them. In addition. Tomorrow Me is not going to curse, not even once while fulfilling those commitments, Tomorrow Me is definitely not going to shout the “c” word and shake a fist in the face of the quavering computer while finishing all that work.
Tomorrow Me is as real as Trump’s honesty, generosity and selflessness.
A snippet of a recent Martha Beck podcast episode entitled ‘Give “Tomorrow You” A Break’ delivered me this essential direction.
if you wouldn’t want to do something today, don’t condemn [“Tomorrow”] You to that thing.
I’m trying this on as the thousandth attempt to say no more often, insert a powerful pause between a request to do something and my response.
The difficulty for me is that I’m time blind and I see a task already done as soon as a request falls from someone’s lips or enters my mind as the next brilliant idea. I bleep over the track of endless hurdles I will have to lumber over to get to the end. The joy of having the thing done sweeps me up into its false embrace and waltzes me all the way to overwhelm.
But Martha Beck assures me Tomorrow Me will never come. And I believe her.
Will this help me turn my yeses to nos? Today and Tomorrow Me are trying it on for size.