Celebrate Every Day
Today is National Odometer Day! Well, that’s kind of boring. But tomorrow is National Apple Pie Day! And Wednesday is National Dance Like a Chicken Day…I could go on and on about the silly and random things that we ‘celebrate’ every day. Who says we should celebrate these things? Who says we shouldn’t? There is much value in finding reasons to celebrate and enjoy every day. Sometimes as we get lost in our routines it can be hard to remember to enjoy the little things too.
Taking a moment to bask in the small victories or find joy in the ordinary is just one way we can brighten up our days. Expressing gratitude or admiration for our colleagues is one of the simplest and quickest ways to brighten their day. We hear all the time how important a positive attitude is but there truly is great value in it.
Now I know we all have our bad days and that’s okay, too. Life isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes life is a bunch of thunderstorms one after the other and we feel like we can barely get a second to plant our flowers. Or maybe we get them planted and then they get washed away in the rain. You could spend a day upset because your flowers are ruined, and you could get so frustrated you just can’t look at the flower bed for a few days. And then out of the blue, there’s one resilient little flower starting to grow. And maybe even another. And right there is a little reason to celebrate. We get sidetracked celebrating the resilience of that little flower that sometimes we forget we have that strength in ourselves too.
So, you start tending to that flower. And before you know it, there are more flowers popping up all over the place because you helped nurture that first flower. It’s like the other seeds realized how much brighter it is once they emerge out of the soil and start to soak up the sunlight. The conditions aren’t always right but things still work out the way they were meant to.
I encourage you to do this too. The thunderstorms will always hit us from time to time, but don’t forget to look for the sunshine in every day. It can be the same little ray of sunlight every day, it could be new every day, or it could be both. My daily ray of sunlight is my morning coffee and a good podcast or playlist during my drive to work.
It’s important to be a ray of sunlight for our peers, friends and families too. Because if there’s one thing we know about thunderstorms, it’s that they are sporadic. We may be soaking up the sunlight but the person next to us is in the worst part of the storm still.