The distinguished author Og Mandino, now deceased, developed the phrase “live each day in a day-tight compartment.” His opinion was to seal yourself in a day-tight compartment so that you will live only for this day and its allotted work.

Mr. Mandino thought the heavy load of yesterday’s problems and the concerns of tomorrow will befoul your thinking today. It will dilute your immediate creative powers to solve today’s problems and workaday activities. Yesterday and tomorrow doesn’t exist. Get rid of them from your mind.

If we live each day in a day-tight compartment we work only on those things that should be done today. We worry about today’s concerns and in so doing the outcome will improve.

Would you want a highly specialized surgeon operating on your brain and thinking about last night’s poker game? Of course not!

Yesterday does have some redeeming qualities. We learn from the mistakes and successes of our yesterdays. Yesterday’s are memories and we cherish these if they are pleasant and learn from failures.

The thought of our tomorrow develops hope that better days for another chance to improve and succeed will present itself. Hope, after all, is item most of us lean upon, revel in and find comfort.