We all know that the end of one month and the beginning of another is an arbitrary landmark created by the creation of the calendar. But as February 29 brings to an end an exciting month for so many readers who committed to lifting and struggling their way out of mediocrity and misery, it is time to reflect. Where has the month lead? Did you smile more often? Laugh spontaneously? Share your heart with a friend?

Was a goal reached? Did you build on something important and start something BIG?

How many new people did you meet and how many old friends did you reach out to?

What will March bring? In most places, in the north, spring is either in full force or on its way. Is there a sense of creation and regrowth bubbling in you? Have you planted enough seeds of opportunity or do you need to get sowing?

Remember to breathe new life into each day. Remember to practice appreciation and be kind. Remember to practice self care, get into nature, share a burden, and do something for someone else. Do something for the first time and then try doing it a different way.

I hope and pray that you will be everything that you sense you can be. Someone stringer and more confident and definitely more fun. As the old saying goes ” Always be yourself. unless you can be a pirate and then be a pirate. Aargh.”

B

Every four years we get a mulligan; an extra day in February. Tomorrow ids that day. February 29, 2016 is declared a ‘Do Over Day’. If you have had a bad day, a horrible day, a stress filled day in February then tomorrow is your opportunity to pick up your ball and take another swing. You have 24 hours to ‘make it right’ and now you have 24 hours to plan just how you are going to do that.

Aim higher than you ever have, swing stronger than you thought possible, make the most of this chance because another one isn’t until 2020.

Make Tomorrow Remarkable, by planning today,

B

Don’t hesitate. Don’t wait. Tomorrow may not be a better time to start. Tomorrow may not be.

Start something ‘BIG” today. Something Brave, something Important, something Generous. You are brave, important and generous and have so many BIG things that you are able and capable of doing.

It requires bravery to do something no one else around you is doing.
~ Amber Heard

Bravery isn’t the absence of fear, it is an acknowledgement that we can overcome fear. If you fear heights – you don’t need to scale Everest to be brave, just climb high enough for the anxiousness to rise up and the two more steps. If you fear being seen as ridiculous (as so many I meet seem to be) the opposite approach might work, Do something so audacious that it wakes up the neighbours and then everything else will be easier. I don’t know what your brave act for today looks like but it likely should involve something that includes other people if it is to be generous too.

Contrary to one of the lies of the 1990’s not everything we consider or do is important so it takes some discernment figure out what brave and important act to undertake. Like bravery and generousity, important isn’t an order of magnitude. Something can be important and seemingly easy and seemingly small. If the impact felt by you and others is trans formative or paradigm shifting – it is important to do. Think about the goals you have set and ask ” is this important to getting there?”

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
~Khalil Gibran

Small kindnesses can have enormous impact on how others feel. Instead of limiting your outreach to special times of year like holidays or birthdays, reach out to family, friends, or even strangers randomly to let them know you are thinking of them and are sending love their way. It might be just a quick text or voice mail. It might be a card or the gift of a visit. Perhaps it is the gift of a smile; I am amazed at how my day changes when I smile and speak to strangers

Make Today Remarkable by starting something BIG,

B

For the past 17 days I have been asking you to do something. Breathe, appreciate, be kind, take care … Today I am suggesting you stop something.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
~ Albert Einstein 

I’m not sure what you are doing again and again that isn’t getting you the results you desire  but you know. Just as you end that last sentence a flash occurred and you saw the one ‘big’ thing that is the bane of your existence. Today, tomorrow and the next tomorrow – stop doing it. Don’t do anything else in this arena for three days. Let the cloud of the obsession begin to lift so you can get a glimpse of something else. Lust stop today, that’s it.

B

When I am 100%, completely sure about anything, I realize I have just closed my mind to other possibilities. I probably require some degree of surety and a modicum of certainty but not at the expense of my curiousity. When I settle into the safety zone of knowing, I might be missing an opportunity to understand. I shouldn’t make definitive statements but I hear myself at  least once a day speaking in absolutes. Most of the time it is likely inconsequential like ” Hello Betty has the best fish and chips” but when I say something that enshrines a value or belief with the expectation that someone else (everyone) should fall in line and believe it with me, I might be over the line.

Do you hold some strong opinions? Great. Do you love to debate? Awesome. Have you stopped listening to other ideas? Sad. Are you curious to understand or curious to win?

Take some time today and listen to yourself.

Make Today Remarkable,

B