Tomorrow will be worse

A wake-up call to actually live

You don’t need a reason to feel good.

Most people wait for external events to justify happiness: success, praise, comfort. But waiting puts your emotional life on hold.

A single sentence broke that mindset for me:

“Tomorrow will be worse – enjoy today.”

It sounds negative, but it’s not. It’s a mental jolt — a way to shock yourself out of apathy, overthinking, or endless waiting.

Why It Works

If you really believe tomorrow will be worse, you stop postponing joy. There’s no room for “later.” No excuse to put off living. Even a boring or frustrating day becomes valuable — because it is be better than what comes next.
It is the Best Day of the rest of your life.

This isn’t optimism. It’s urgency.

Your Brain Adapts — So Stop Chasing Highs

Thanks to homeostasis, the brain normalizes everything. The joy you felt from getting what you wanted fades. What was once a peak becomes your new baseline.
Doesnt matter if its a mansion, yacht, supermodel, gold-medal, nobel-prize or the presidency.
Tomorrow its just life.

A study published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology by Brickman et al. (1978) found that lottery winners’ happiness levels returned to baseline within about six months.

Chasing external highs doesn’t work long-term. You always return to your average mood.

But by shifting perspective, not your circumstances, you can feel differently right now.
“Tomorrow will be worse” flips your mental comparison point and reframes today as a gift — not because it’s perfect, but because it still exists.

Use the Big Picture to Shatter “Worry”

Alex Hormozi reminds himself that one day, the sun will explode and the universe will end in heat death. That’s not meant to depress you — it’s a reset button.

Nothing you stress about really matters on a cosmic scale. But that’s freeing: it means you can give meaning to this moment. You can live on your own terms, not because the universe cares, but because you do.

Frankl’s Final Freedom

Viktor Frankl, who survived the Holocaust, wrote:

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—
to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

You don’t control the world, but you control how you see it.
And when you choose a lens like “Tomorrow will be worse,” it cuts through distraction. You stop sleepwalking. You pay attention.

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The Takeaway

• Don’t wait for a reason to feel good.
• Don’t take your circumstances or hormonal balance as a law on how you have to feel.
• Use contrast — not comfort — to shift your mindset.
• Today doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be yours.

“Tomorrow will be worse” isn’t pessimism.
It’s the contrast you need to finally show up for your own life.
Stop whining about how bad your life is just be happy now.