What will you celebrate today? Any ol’ thing you want!
I love reading the horoscopes in my local newspaper. Why? Not because I believe that my “sign” portends a certain future. No. Instead, I happen to find surprisingly insightful comments scattered among the various horoscopes for each day. For instance, last month, one of the horoscopes for Aries (March 23-April19) included this advice:
Find a reason to celebrate.
And, hey, I like that idea. Good advice. For today. Or any day. For me, for you and for anyone, born as an Aries or not. (I’m one of the “not-Aries”.) I think that Mattie Stepanek, the brave youngster who faced adversity with poetry, explained more eloquently than I why celebration is good:
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
What Can You Celebrate Today?
What can you celebrate today, April 14th 2010??? Take a moment, think about your day, think about your life, think about what’s doin’… and what you have to celebrate, now, today. Make your own list. And then CELEBRATE!
As for me, thinking ahead to what I might celebrate on 4/14/2010, let me see… I think these will fall into my “let’s celebrate’ category: Continue reading » A Reason to Celebrate
 photo credit: psdIn this wintery month of February, what can you pause to celebrate?
Well, if you expected this to be another post about procrastination then you may be surprised to learn that, ironically, I’ve postponed it – I’d forgotten about Valentine’s Day and couldn’t let the holiday go by without this wee bit of a hurrah. More on procrastination is ready to roll, just not today, nor tomorrow either. Watch for it… and in the meantime, let’s celebrate February!
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
— Albert Camus
February’s upon us… and this 2010 version of the second month roared in with the winter madness of an El Nino year – we’ve endured blizzards, rainstorms, floods and mudslides, just to name a few of the weather challenges so far. It’s been a cold, cold winter since the exuberance of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza and New Years Day. Some (many?) among us are feeling the winter doldrums. While we wait for spring to be sprung, we need something to Continue reading » What’s to Celebrate? February, of Course!
BTW – How was your day today?
Kick Up Your Heels and Celebrate
As I meandered through this week of annoyingly half-finished tasks, keenly concentrating on celebrating small wins, I stumbled upon a delightful and off-the-wall blog site run by Torley who tells us he’s “a happy human being.” About “micro-wins” he happily recommends:
Continue reading » Kick Up Your Heels and Celebrate: Wins, Contributions, Automagicals & Uncontrollables!
What Smalls will you celebrate?
Don’t let the bastards get you down!
I’ve got some new mountains to climb. And they’re scaring me. My guess is that many of you are, like me, experiencing the following: just as I encounter a precipice, just when I need to make a leap of faith, I find my bounce back juice is running low.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to let the bastards get me down! I’m just going to take a deep breath and figure it out as I go. And take it one step, one day, one little win at a time. And gift myself with the occasional wallow without getting stuck in the quicksand. I’ll stumble up the bounce back path, by God I will!
Continue reading » Stumbling Up the Bounce Back Path
In The Life You’ve Always Wanted , John Ortberg describes bath time with his kids. When he took his daughter out of the tub, she ran in circles singing “dee dah day, dee dah day”, doing the dance she does when her joy is so big that she just can’t hold it in any more. Being a goal oriented adult, he almost missed this joyful celebration by insisting that she hurry over so he could dry her off. She stopped and, looking straight at him, asked the question every adult dreads, “Why?” Upon reflection, he really couldn’t give her an answer. He was just trying to get bath time finished. He had nowhere to go. Nothing he needed to do. He was just being a goal-oriented adult.
Continue reading » A “Dee Dah” Day
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