You not behind, you stay on your own time

You wen wake up already, an da day no stay all pau yet. Dass da only real good fact you get dis time of day, an everybody get da same one. Someplace one window stay open. Get one whole bunch of hours in front of you dat nobody wen claim yet. Whateva you wen decide yesterday about where you suppose to be by now, no more power ova da next sixteen hours.

Da floor stay cold unda one foot an warm unda da otha one. Da traffic starting for sound like traffic. Get one bag by da door wit yesterday inside. Da light stay finding da same corner of da wall he find every morning around dis time, an you notice um today cuz you happen to be looking.

You been keeping one scoreboard against people you no can even see where dey wen start from. Dass tiring an no come free. Da reason dat comparing thing hurt so much is cuz you stay matching your inside, wit all your doubts an all your unfinished stuff, against somebody's outside, wit only what dey wen choose for show. Dass not one fair way for measure. No even broken, cuz one broken thing would still stay pointed at da right thing, an dis one stay measuring two kine dat neva was da same for begin wit.

Flip um around. If coming late mean coming out worse, den everybody who wen change direction in da middle of dea life would come out wit worse work than da ones who wen go straight, an dass clearly not what happen. One person who wen start at twenty an one person who wen start at forty, dey not in da same race going different speed; dey stay on separate tracks dat only look da same from far away. What really tell you where you goin end up, no matta when da clock wen start. Da question is, you still putting in da hours twelve months from now, an dass about your habits, not your history.

So today, you pick one number dat belong only to you. Pages, minutes, reps, calls, whateva da unit stay for your thing. You write um someplace you goin see um on Sunday, an you check um once one week instead of every hour. One private measure beat one hundred public ones, cuz nobody else's good month can make you win or lose your own private one.

Da hours up ahead stay unspent an dey really yours. Nobody running your clock but you, an been keeping betta time den you wen give um credit for. Start from hea. Hea stay one real place for start from.