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Celebrate - enjoy what you “have to” do
Celebrate everything. Life is supposed to be fun. You might have to write a report or balance books or do the dishes. No escaping that we “have to” do things that are not fun. As long as you “have to” you might as
well try and make it fun. Choose to have fun.
Every moment, we can tune into our senses more. Try using your senses and determine for yourself if it feels good. Be aware of how soft your shirt feels on your skin. Listen to your children playing. Smell the pastry
or sausage or bread being prepared. Feel the breeze or heater on your cheek. You choose to focus your attention on pleasant sensations. How’s the warm dish water feel? Isn’t the snow on the trees beautiful? Take a
few extra seconds to celebrate your human body and your life, the combinations of events that have happened to give you this experience to enjoy. Are a few seconds going to matter? Determine for your self if taking
the time to enjoy your world is worth it.
Each of us determines how much fun we are going to have. You can “make” fun by using your intellect to engage your senses. Your senses are an input to your emotional self. Your emotional self, your lower self, has a
direct link to your higher self. You choose to involve your senses, spend those few extra seconds with a sensation. You become emotionally involved with the joy in your life. You determine how much fun you are
having. Your higher power will get the message and give you more to enjoy.
Smile for no reason. Try it. Right now, smile and see how that smile feels on your face. Try laughing. Just let out a little laugh and then check your emotional state. Each of us can determine how much fun we have.
Discover little things that make you happy and do them.
Acknowledge and praise every thing and every one. Any time something or someone is even slightly right acknowledge it, at least to your self. Let yourself think, “He looks good in that color.” Play up the right
things and more right things will happen.
Share your happiness with a sincere compliment or acknowledgment. Tell him he looks good in that color. Call someone on the phone or write them a letter, especially if for “no reason” you were thinking about
them. Make a reason to take a little gift home for a family member. What goes around comes around. Do you like getting gifts for no reason or having people call you out of the blue? Do you like getting letters or
e-mail from friends and acquaintances? You will have more to celebrate when you celebrate more.
Try This:
Birthday weeks. Is one day every year enough to celebrate who you are? Try a family tradition of birthday weeks. The birthday person selects a week with their birthday in it. That gets to be their birthday week. They
get birthday week privileges. Maybe they get a little present each day. Maybe they get to decide what the family has for dinner. Maybe they don’t have to eat their vegetables during their birthday week. Celebrate
life and living with your family. Try birthday weeks.
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