“Appreciation can make a day - even
change a life, your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
- Margaret Cousins
Every day
we have a choice when we wake up. We can feel bad—feel bad about the fact that
it is morning and you have to actually get up to go to work or class, about the
fact that you may not have gotten everything done that you needed to yesterday
so you have to scramble to get things done today, or just about any other
excuse you can make for feeling bad when you wake up. However let’s be honest,
this is no way to wake up. We all want to have a good day. So let’s wake up
feeling good. Feel good that you’re alive, that this is a new day where
yesterday really doesn’t matter. Feel good that your alarm went off, that you
will soon be seeing your friends, or just about anything else. You have a lot
more to feel good about in life, just think about it.
Going
further though, Margaret Cousins refers to putting your appreciation into
words. You may be changing your life, or at least your day by waking up feeling
good; but you can change someone else’s life, or at least their day by sharing
your daily appreciations. Maybe it will encourage them to say thank you or you're
welcome, speak to someone they haven’t in years, or in an extreme case, cause
someone to rethink their life choices. You may not believe a simple voice could
change a person’s thinking, but because it is often one word that makes someone
feel bad about their day or their life it could also be that one word could
make them feel good.
I encourage
you to speak for the next week. Speak to a friend, a family member, or better yet an
unfamiliar face. The key is to speak and remember that even though you may not
be changing someone else’s life, you are choosing to live a better one for
yourself.
- Margaret Gruhler
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