Mornings are a special time of day. The day is all fresh and new as a newborn babe. All the opportunities are there, so much hope and expectations in those few hours when most anything can still happen.
You plan and map out your day to the best of your abilities and hope you will be able to accomplish everything you set yourself out to do.
Should you be ambitious with your goals and potentially disappoint yourself by not fulfilling it all? Or do you play it safe and then find yourself with idle time you feel you should spend in a productive manner, but don’t know quite how?
It truly is a dilemma. What you do really should depend on your mood, though your mood can also affect how you plan in the end. If you feel moody or depressed, you might not try and plan much of anything, when getting out of bed and getting something to eat is a chore in itself. But sometimes…If you can force yourself to do something, anything more than just the bare necessities you might find yourself with more energy in the end. Productivity breeds productivity. It can clear the foul miasmas from your head.
But it is also important just to savor that feeling in the morning. When the day is new, when the sun has just crept above the horizon and everyone has woken out of slumber just as bed-ruffled as you. Savor that newness, taste it for what it represents, that every day is a new opportunity and a new chance to do something. Anything.
You don’t have to set lofty or high goals, you do not have to expect grand things from yourself every day. Just…recognize that you could accomplish great things and grand things.
We all have that inside us, to do grand and wonderful things, because grand things do not always have to mean heroic feats worthy of a superhero. It can be something small on the surface, but something small can have a far larger impact than you think.
Smile at the girl at the register at the grocery story; that smile could make her day just a little better. Offer a friendly hello to your mailman; that can make the rest of his route seem easier to bear. Help a lost tourist find his or her way back to where they want to be; you will be a lifesaver in some ways. Send a friendly message to someone you don’t speak much anymore; maybe that will be the thing that allows you to reconnect again.
Small things, seemingly insignificant, not too draining things (if you like me deal with anxiety), but they can have a larger impact, like the rings on a water puddle.
You can have an impact on someone else’s life and at the same time, alter the course of your own life.
And every morning is a new chance to try something like that, a new opportunity to try something new, something grand, something seemingly insignificant, but in the end much larger than it might seem.
You have that power inside you even now. Because you are important. You matter.
Perhaps, all you need to be able to go out and do grand things, is to realize yourself that you are a grand person yourself. Someone who fills an important part in the lives of many, you just don’t see it yet.
But you do.
Always remember that.
We are all important people and we matter. Just because you cannot reach out and psychically touch someone, it does not mean that the connection with someone else isn’t there.
Every morning should remind you of that.
So have a nice day ahead😀
