Hello friends,
We are a little late getting out this month’s newsletter. It’s been a busy February. Hopefully it finds you well! I wanted to share a quick story of an idea I had recently. My husband and I get along great… but somehow, somewhere along the line we started this bad habit of trying to “one-up” each other. We are both extremely busy and have two little kids. One of us would say “well I’m so busy or tired or whatever because I did this today” and then the other one will counter with… “oh yeah well I did ….” You see where this is going. So a couple of weeks ago I had an epiphany. I told him that our problem was we both felt like we did everything and neither one of us felt appreciated.
So we agreed instead of trying to outdo the other one with who’s life is harder each day we say “thank you” for one thing. It may be as simple as thank you for picking the kids up today, or thank you for making dinner. Just anything to acknowledge the efforts of the other person. And so far it seems to be working. All of those small ‘thank yous’ will add up over time.
Now you may be thinking well I’m not married, or I live alone or whatever. But I think that this idea could work with anyone! Whether you have a significant other you live with or even if you live solo. Thank yourself. Once a day say “thank you self for getting out of bed today”. Whatever you feel like you did that day that was worthwhile. No matter how small. Sometimes we get so caught up in the cycle of thinking we can’t get it all done or there is never enough time. But if we take time to appreciate what we did do that will make us feel better and overall more productive in whatever you want in life. At least that’s what I’m hoping will happen. Please feel free to use this idea and let me know if it helps!
Wishing you a wonderful spring.
April Grace
Director of Communications, Raymon Grace Foundation