Solo per oggi – Just For Today – Sibyl F. Partridge

Solo per oggi

Solo per oggi cercherò di vivere alla giornata senza voler risolvere i problemi
della mia vita tutti in una volta.

Solo per oggi avrò la massima cura del mio aspetto: vestirò con sobrietà, non alzerò la voce, sarò cortese nei modi, non criticherò nessuno, non cercherò di migliorare o disciplinare nessuno tranne me stesso.

Solo per oggi sarò felice nella certezza che sono stato creato per essere felice non solo nell’altro mondo, ma anche in questo.

Solo per oggi mi adatterò alle circostanze, senza pretendere che le circostanze si adattino ai miei desideri.

Solo per oggi dedicherò dieci minuti del mio tempo a sedere in silenzio ascoltando Dio, ricordando che come il cibo è necessario alla vita del corpo, così il silenzio e l’ascolto sono necessari alla vita dell’anima.

Solo per oggi, compirò una buona azione e non lo dirò a nessuno.

Solo per oggi mi farò un programma: forse non lo seguirò perfettamente, ma lo farò. E mi guarderò dai due malanni: la fretta e l’indecisione.

Solo per oggi saprò dal profondo del cuore, nonostante le apparenze, che l’esistenza si prende cura di me come nessun altro al mondo.

Solo per oggi non avrò timori. In modo particolare non avrò paura di godere di ciò che è bello e di credere nell’Amore.

Posso ben fare per 12 ore ciò che mi sgomenterebbe se pensassi di doverlo fare tutta la vita.

Dale Carnegie ha citato questo testo nel suo libro “Come smettere di preoccuparsi e incominciare a vivere”e lo attribuisce “alla scomparsa Sibyl F. Partridge”. Il titolo originale inglese è “Just For Today”.

generalmente esso è attribuito a Papa Giovanni XXIII

Original English Text:

“How To Stop Worrying And Start Living”
By Dale Carnegie p. 66
So let us remember these words of William James: “Much of what we call Evil … can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer’s inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight.” Let’s fight for our happiness! Let’s fight for our happiness by following a daily programme of cheerful and constructive thinking. Here is such a programme. It is entitled “Just for Today”. I found this programme so inspiring that I gave away hundreds of copies. It was written thirty-six years ago by the late Sibyl F. Partridge. If you and I follow it, we will eliminate most of our worries and increase immeasurably our portion of what the French call la joie de vivre.
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Just For Today

1. Just for today I will be happy. This assumes that what Abraham Lincoln said is true, that “most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Happiness is from within; it is not a matter of externals.

2. Just for today I will try to adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires. I will take my family, my business, and my luck as they come and fit myself to them.

3. Just for today I will take care of my body. I will exercise it, care for it, nourish it, not abuse it nor neglect it, so that it will be a perfect machine for my bidding.

4. Just for today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will learn something useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.

5. Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do, as William James suggests, just for exercise.

6. Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress as becomingly as possible, talk low, act courteously, be liberal with praise, criticise not at all, nor find fault with anything and not try to regulate nor improve anyone.

7. Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not to tackle my whole life problem at once. I can do things for twelve hours that would appall me if I had to keep them up for a lifetime.

8. Just for today I will have a programme. I will write down what I expect to do every hour. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. It will eliminate two pests, hurry and indecision.

9. Just for today I will have a quiet half-hour all by myself and relax. In this half-hour sometimes I will think of God, so as to get a little more perspective into my life.

10. Just for today I will be unafraid, especially I will not be afraid to be happy, to enjoy what is beautiful, to love, and to believe that those I love, love me. If we want to develop a mental attitude that will bring us peace and happiness, here is Rule 1: Think and act cheerfully, and you will feel cheerful.

Written by Sybil F. Partridge Cin 1916 and printed in
“How To Stop Worrying, And Start Living” by Dale Carnegie, 1951
http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=55&;id=39309
but generally it is attribuite to Pope John XXIII