September 12, 2025
If you’re like me, you’ve got at least one lie you tell over and over again. Not a big one, not something that could land you on the evening news, but one of those little fibs that just rolls out of your mouth before you can even catch it. Mine? “I’ll start tomorrow.”
Tomorrow has become the busiest, most overcrowded day on my calendar. Every workout plan, house project, side hustle, or habit I’ve sworn to adopt is waiting there, in a tomorrow that somehow never comes. I’ve got stacks of “tomorrows” piled higher than the laundry I pretend isn’t sitting in the corner of my bedroom.
I tell myself this lie because it’s convenient. It buys me comfort in the present moment and lets me avoid the sting of admitting I’m not ready to commit. But the problem is, those “tomorrows” add up. Before I know it, weeks pass, then months, and suddenly I realize the thing I said I’d start tomorrow has been waiting in the hallway for half a year.
It’s not the only lie I tell. I also say “I’m fine” when I’m not, “I don’t mind” when I do, and “I read that book” when I definitely didn’t. The little lies grease the wheels of daily life, keeping conversations light and easy. But they also create clutter. They keep me from being fully honest, both with others and with myself.
The funny thing is, when I’m brave enough to tell the truth, even the small, awkward truth, it usually lands better than I expect. Nobody actually cares that I didn’t finish that book. My wife would much rather know that I do mind than have me stew silently. And starting today instead of tomorrow? Well, that one would solve more problems than it creates.
So today’s Question of the Day is really an invitation: what’s your “I’ll start tomorrow”? What’s the little lie you’ve been rehearsing so long it practically has its own mailing address in your brain? Maybe just saying it out loud is the first step to finally putting it to rest.
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