My Best Day So Far

Every day each of us is asked one question more than any other. Whether at home , at work, or in your community, over and over we hear someone ask, "How's your day?" A great man once taught me that how you choose to answer that question can often dictate how your day goes. While a student at Brigham Young University, I had the opportunity to take a few classes from George Durrant. George is not only an excellent teacher, he is also an accomplished author and while I was his student, he wrote a book called "My Best Day So Far." The main premise of the book and his "Big Idea," was that every time someone asked you how your day was, you would reply, "My Best Day So Far," and that reply could change your day.

It wasn't a ground breaking idea, or one that made all the papers, but what was amazing about the concept was the way the man lived by it. In all the four years I was at BYU every time I saw Professor Durrant on campus I would call out, "How's your day?" to which he always replied, "My Best Day So Far!" The man never missed. Over and over I asked and over and over I received the same response, "My Best Day So Far!"

The idea worked. I know every day I saw him didn't start out as his best day, but hearing his own affirmation made it so. You could see it on his face it always carried a smile, it was always filled with joy. What's more, is it started to rub off on me. His best day's began to bleed into mine making them my best so far, and motivating me to give his positive plug a chance in my life. I must admit that I have not been as diligent as George Durrant in my replies, but when I tell myself and others that my day is my best so far, it becomes so.

Let's then each of us move forward with the motivation to make this day and every day our best one yet, even if they just begin our best in the will of our heart. So, "How's your day?......."

OUR BEST DAY'S ARE BEFORE US, SO LONG AS WE WILL WATCH THEM COME -JASON HALL