The secret to making today the best day in your life, ever

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Hey, it’s 7.30 am in the morning and I am doing my usual thing, writing a quick blog before eating my breakfast.

 

Since I get a choice to decide what kind of a day it is, I might as well decide it’s the best day, ever.

 

Why not? I get to decide to see all the things that I “have to do” as stuff that I “get to do”. A small difference in wording, but a huge difference in my happiness and the way I am going to do them.

 

Today I have go to deal with a number of seriously difficult people whom I would rather not have to see ever again. But then, when I “get to” deal with them, I can employ a bit more empathy, a pinch more humanity and gratitude, and be grateful that they are presenting me with a valuable practical training in handling difficult people, and level up in this more and more important survival skill. Yes, handling difficult people effectively is a very valuable ($$$$$$$$ valuable!) trainable skill.

 

Next, I am remembering that I have to find good in three people in my life today (according to my calendar). Thank God that over the past months, even though I am finding good about them non stop every day, the list of people I have lined up to find good has grown longer and longer, and it does seem that there is more good than I can find till I die.

 

Yesterday a close friend of mine has just had a lump below his adam’s apple checked by his doctor , and he needs to have a biopsy next week.  I am hoping that it will all be ok for him and communicating with him with resources to help him. When something like this happens to someone close to us it is a reminder that life is impermanent and every breath we get to take in and out is not to be taken for granted.

 

We might as well decide this is the best day in my life, ever.

 

I am curious, if we all decide that today is the best day in our life, would murder rates drop, unnecessary arguments cease, terrorism decrease and would all the negative elements in our physical and spiritual lives improve dramatically? Even on a trivial and practical level, would our customers be more likely to say yes to our offers, if we show up every day as the “best day in our life, ever”?