The Olympics are being planned out until 2034 (at least) as of today. Whether it's important to you or not, whether you have any plans to watch or attend or even participate, just know that it's certainly all set all ready.
It's not just sporting events, it's many important plans. Unfortunately we have a tendency to fail to plan, which is a plan to fail. The bridge collapses? We should probably do something about that now. Meanwhile In the Czech Republic, a colony of beavers saved $1.2 million with a dam that the humans just couldn't get around to doing.
I see it at least once a month: "I know this is short notice, but are you available tomorrow?" We're often booked out a year to 18 months in advance - and that's just our little niche of the industry and just in our own little corner of the world.
Apply this to your own plans, goals, dreams. I challenge many people who say (for example) "I'd love to learn....." and my response is, "you can, if it's important enough to you, you'll find the time. If it's not important, you'll find an excuse." What's really stopping you? How much energy are you spending on spinning your wheels instead of getting down to it and even beginning on a project? A year will go by and that resolution is laughable, maybe even forgotten altogether.
Most of the people who died today had plans for tomorrow.
So when practical matters outweigh abandon, every relationship fails. That includes the relationship with yourself - self care, self-development, growth in whatever is really important to you.
Of course there can be things that limit progress and adversity can take many forms but the best parts of our human nature are displayed in every championship we love to watch, every victory we're rooting for, every achievement we celebrate or commemorate. Those people DID it.
Does it really matter that "so and so leader" had a headache that day or that their boss was nagging them or that they were a little hungry at the time? Do we even want to give that detail any attention or do we focus on what they achieved in spite of relatively insignificant problems?
I don't think it has been said often enough. Life is short, yesterday is over, tomorrow isn't promised, all we have is the present. That's why it's such a gift.
Y'know those things you always wanted to do? Start now, baby steps, progress not perfection. Because life is CURRENTLY available.