One Day or Day One?

Perspectives can be found depending on how sentences are formed, depending on how phrases are uttered, and depending on the order of how words are said. Our language and understanding of the meaning behind tone, vocabulary, and body language can all lead to different levels of perspective. Changing the perspective we have can change a seemingly awful situation into one with potential. We can move from a feeling that the world is ending to a feeling that a new world is only just beginning. From glass half-empty to glass half-full we can train our minds to see the potential of what is to come, not the trouble of what has happened. A key perspective change today is how we view chasing a goal, idea, or challenge we want to achieve. Do we want to do it one day, or is today day one? One day, or… day one?

If it is “one day,” it is far into the future. It is something that we hope to achieve. It is something that we think we can eventually get to when we finally start. “One day" tells us that we think it is possible, but we will get there when we get there. “One day” connotes a passive acceptance of what is to come, if it’s meant to happen, we will get there “one day.” No matter what it is, no matter how much it is gnawing at us, no matter how much we are thinking about it, we maintain the idea we will get to it “one day.”

“Day one” flips this perspective. “Day one” lets us find a cure for everything gnawing at us and finds an outlet for the obsessive thoughts. We choose to be active participators through deliberate choices to make today “day one” in pursuing all that we want to do. “Day one” tells us that we are going to prove ourselves right, prove it to be possible, starting now. What we are after becomes easier after each day we commit effort to— starting on “day one.” It may be something we hope to achieve but hope is not what makes us start the process, we start because we are tired of it being a thought of “one day.” We choose to commit to starting “day one” today. “Day one” starts us on the journey to where we want to be in the future, but we are finally on the path to where we want to be. We may get there “one day,” but today is “day one.” It starts now.