We’re not sure if you’ve realized it yet, but there is, in reality, only one day. Everyone, ever, in the history of all the world has experienced their entire lives in the only place they can ever take place: today. It’s true. Yesterday consists of a discarded today. Tomorrow, a dream of today to come. Life happens now.

So TODAY we bring you something that can help you line up with this only day. A listicle long before listicles were even a ‘thing’, this 10 point summary has turned up, in full and in part, in places as varied and obscure as The Christian Science Monitor, a weekly publication named Masonic Histriology, and George Harrison’s 1987 album Cloud Nine.

Mistakenly attributed to a nun named Sybil F. Partridge for years (even being published as such in a 1948 Dale Carnegie book entitled “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”) it was actually written for The Boston Globe in 1921 by an author named Frank Crane who had a column in the paper called “Dr. Crane Says”.

So, nearly 100 years later, we bring it to you now, on the same, simple day it has been seen by everyone during that time, and will be to come.

Here are ten resolutions to make when you awake in the morning.

They are Just for One Day. Think of them not as a life task but as a day’s work.

These things will give you pleasure. Yet they require will power. You don’t need resolutions to do what is easy.

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

2. 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.

3. Just for Today, I will 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.

4. Just for Today, I will take care of my Body. I will exercise it, care for it, and nourish it, and not abuse it nor neglect it; so that it will be a perfect machine for my will.

5. Just for Today, I will try to strengthen my mind, I will study. I will learn something useful, I will not be a mental loafer all day. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.

6. Just for Today, I will exercise my Soul. In three ways, to wit:

(a) I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. If anybody knows of it, it will not count.

(b) I will do at least two things I don’t want to do, as William James suggests, just for exercise.

(c) I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt. They may be hurt, but Today I will not show it.

7. 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 flattery, criticize not one bit nor find fault with anything, and not try to regulate nor improve anybody.

8. Just for Today, I will have a Programme. I will write down just what I expect to do every hour. I may not follow it exactly, but I’ll have it. It will save me from the two pests Hurry and Indecision.

9. Just for Today, I will have a quiet half hour, all by myself, and relax. During this half hour, some time, I will think of God, so as to get a little more perspective to 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.