After yesterday’s post about The Book of Awesome and some time spent scrolling through the website that started it all, 1000 Awesome Things, I started doing something really strange. I started actively trying to think of awesome things. It wasn’t only in the period following my discovery of Neil’s book and website. It was all day long. Every where I went, everything I did, I kept trying to find awesome things, things that I would classify as bright spots in a regular, run-of-the-mill day. I found a bunch of things.
-finding good food in your refrigerator that you didn’t know was there, thus leading to an awesome lunch.
-going for a great walk (outside!) and not worrying about how many calories were being burned, the exact elevation of my heart rate and the specific duration of the exercise.
-getting all your work done before 2pm and realizing there actually are benefits to being your own boss. (see above: going for a great walk)
-realizing EXACTLY what you want to have for dinner and having the energy (and enthusiasm) to go to the grocery store and pick it up yourself.
-thinking you missed a great tv show and then realizing it hasn’t aired yet!
-knowing you have a great tv show to look forward to that night.
-getting an invitation in the mail to a place you don’t really feel like going and then realizing it falls on a day you are actually going to be out of town.
-reading the first page of a book and knowing you are going to love the whole thing, beginning to end.
-realizing that the things you stress about aren’t that big a deal and there is no such thing as a right or wrong decision.
-having a sudden sense that things really will be alright.
-figuring out how to do something on your computer that will actually make your life easier…or at least help you do things faster.
-getting everything on your to-do list DONE.
-resurrecting something from your childhood…and knowing that every time you look at it, it will make you smile.
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