This week, until 3 January, you can purchase Seize the Day from Kevin Mayhew Ltd at a 10 per cent discount, using the code SEIZE10 when ordering the title from the company’s website. With the book normally retailing at £14.99, that’s a saving of £1.50. Just type the code into the relevant box at the online checkout between the dates given.
Here, meanwhile, is the fifth of the reflections I’ll be posting this week from the book, to run alongside this promotion.
In a world of clamour and noise
To be yourself in a world that is constantly
trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
Anon
Be who you were created to be,
and you will set the world on fire.
Catherine of Siena
What we think, we become.
The Buddha
In a world of clamour and noise,
remember the importance of silence.
In a world of frantic bustle,
make time to be still.
In a world consumed by haste,
forget not the need for patience.
In a world beset by worry,
take one day’s problems at a time.
In a world that worships money,
seek riches that will not fade,
In a world obsessed by fame,
be comfortable with who you are.
If you would find contentment in the big things of life,
you must learn to find them first in the small,
the simple,
the ordinary.
If you would taste joy tomorrow,
you need to discover it today,
in the here and now.
And if you would find fulfilment,
you need to know yourself,
accept yourself,
be yourself.
Take time, then, to pause,
to reflect,
and to ask yourself what matters most,
what is really important –
time to challenge the way of the world
to question its norms,
and to be who you really are.