What do you look forward to? That first cup of coffee in the morning? The changing of the seasons? Christmas morning? your birthday? Maybe you were always that person that looked forward to the first day of school.
Whatever it is that you look forward to, how does that make you feel? Are you excited, nervous, or is it just another day for you? Some times it depends on what it is, that morning cup of coffee, or Diet Coke or whatever it is that gets you going in the morning. It can be something to look forward to, it can get out of bed and moving. I don’t know a lot people that don’t look forward to their birthday. They might not fully embrace the number but they generally embrace celebrating with friends and family.
Kids remind us that holidays like Halloween, Christmas, Easter and 4th of July are all things to look forward to. It is time with family, and friends and a time to celebrate. A time to have fun.
So what do you do when times are tough? When it feels like there isn’t anything to look forward, I think that is when we have to start looking for the little things to look forward to. Maybe it is walk on sunny day, or favorite meal. Life can be hard, it throws punches at us and we have to fight back.
How we fight back is a choice, we can choose to lay down and say that we have been defeated or we can find things to look forward to each day and choose to fight back at it.
That’s the thing, if we start looking forward to the small things, soon we are looking forward to larger things and thinking less about the things that were bringing us down. Don’t get me wrong, there are still going to be hard days, they are not going away, but when you focus on what you are looking forward to it makes those days a little bit better.
Until next time,
Juli
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