Today, one of the ladies in the office and I were talking. She’d spied my white board’s message: “Reminder…what are your blessings today?” This sparked a conversation about what were our blessings for the day. Of course family, friends, health and our jobs made the list.

She went on to say she uses positive affirmations in her computer passwords. I’m not going to give out any of her top secret information so calm down, people. She uses things like “LoveEveryone” and “Encourage” and changes them every three months. She says she can come into work in a cranky mood, then will type in “LoveEveryone” and it helps bring her back to a better place.

I thought, what a fantastic idea. Because you know what? We don’t think enough about the positives in our daily lives. Often our thoughts are consumed more by that utter idiot who just cut us off on the freeway. The resident who yelled at us. Or and I'm talking about clearly the worst human on the planet here, the person who has 25 items in a 20 item or less check stand. AND COUPONS! AND FORGOT SOMETHING!! And then they WRITE A CHECK?!

Ok calm down, think about blessings. (A CHECK?! OMG Who does that?!) Deep breath. Blessings. Positive.

How often do we take the time to say “thank you” “I appreciate you” “you’re the best?” Something simple like that can truly make a person’s day (especially after they were at the grocery store behind check-woman—ok, I’ve really got to let this go).

Imagine how much your residents would appreciate it if you told them for no reason, “thank you for being an awesome resident. We’re so happy you’re here.” Tell your vendor partners, “thank you for all you do for us, you rock.” Maybe even tell your husband or wife how much you respect them, and thanks for replacing the toilet paper roll (leave out the part that they totally put it on the wrong way—obviously it goes up and over, not down and behind).

I challenge everyone (myself included) to take the time to tell one person a day how much you appreciate them, try to do it every day. And even more importantly, take the time to think about your blessings every day. Change your password to something like “IAMAwesome” or ”BeNice” or “Forgive” or “NoChecks”

Let's get positive people!

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