Quam minimum credula postero.

Carpe Diem is the ever famous quote from the Roman poet Horace (65B.C.–8B.C.), but what I just learned today as I was trying to figure out what to write about is the actual quote is, "Carpe Diem. Quam minimum credula postero." Which means various things like harvest the day, pluck the day, and of course the popular translation of seize the day! The second part is what got my attention. Quam minimum credula postero: trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.

Walking up the stairs to my bedroom in the house that I lived in Nashville, I remember thinking to myself one day as I was daydreaming about how if my reality were different, and I stopped. I was living in Nashville! That was a dream in itself and I was doing it. It may not look like I had wanted it too, but it was reality and it was high time I started focusing on being present in my head in the moment that I was in. If not I might miss something spectacular!

I have always been a daydreamer. Right now I am daydreaming about being with my friends, drinking tea, playing Phase 10, and winning! I am daydreaming about the day I get to put my two weeks notice in at my current employer gearing up for a new career start – whatever I have to do to be anywhere but here.

As stated before in earlier writings the learning of the everyday is where I am right now. Being present in this moment and taking advantage of the great stories that lie within my everyday, to take the effort to make the day stand out. To notice the power and opportunity in what could be in the moments that are happening right now, even this moment as I pen this on my break at work.

My greatest fear with this writing dream in my heart is I wake up at 70 one day and all I ever said was “one day.” One day when I write books and I get to go on book tours and spur people on to be better than they ever imagined...one day.

Today is today though and today is grand. Today I am trusting as little as possible in tomorrow to be faithful and focused and purposed in today and what it holds

Carpe Diem...yes Quam minimum credula postero...could be the only way to really carpe diem.