"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." ~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Sometimes, despite our best efforts and positive thinking, health, fortune, and/or peace elude us.
But the one thing we do have absolute control over is the quality of our day.
How we greet, meet, and complete each day is our choosing.
For some time now I have been conducting a top-secret experiment with life.
I wanted to see just how much influence I really had on the day's character.
So the first words I speak in the morning are; "Thank you for the gift of this wonderful new day."
Here are my initial findings, you won't like them.
I didn't.

1) Every day is wonderful in direct proportion to the creative energy invested in it. No investment, no return.

2) Even lousy days have hidden wonder. Sometimes all you have to do is make an attitude adjustment to shift your perception of an entire afternoon and move forward into a pleasant evening.

3) Weather does not seem to affect the experiment. Gray, cold and rainy days spent in your office are just as susceptible to the warming influence of enthusiasm as are sunny days spent on the beach sipping gin and juice. (well, kind of. . .)

4) Days that are expected to be wonderful before they begin turn out to be so, much more frequently than days greeted with grumbling and complaining.

5) The results of my experiment suggest that it doesn't matter whether a day is good or bad. What matters is what we do with it.

I knew that.

Party on xxx