How to Remember You Are Important

To remember you are important sounds like an easy task. It is instead very challenging! Especially with the crazy lives we seem to live today.

Here are some thoughts - humble they may be - hope they will be of help: Stop for a few moments everyday to enjoy a favorite time - mine is a sunset - yours maybe a sunrise. Look at the colors - watch the movement as the scene is changing so slightly each moment. Stay for the whole show - until the twilight brings down the curtain. This will give you time to breath and your mind and body to relax.

Write down three things you have done in the last year that changes someone's life - they don't have to be fancy. Did you help give a person in the grocery line help by giving them the nickel they couldn't find while their baby cried to go home, was it a note that you wrote to someone who has been under the weather and unable to get out and visit, maybe it was the basket of over abundant garden peppers, tomatoes and zucchini squash you brought to the mission or food bank for them to share. If you don't have 3 things - then count this exercise as one of them and get to work.

Plan a gathering - if you are unable to do the work yourself - Delegate! But gather together those loved and close. Plan a varied menu of old favorites and new recipes. Make the food gathering part of the experience. Indulge in the fresh foods available at local stands and farmer's markets knowing they are healthier for you, as well as, possibly helping a family in need make ends-meet by your purchase.

Many questions are probally floating through your brain as you read this - How do these things make me remember I am important? So far they all have to do with reaching outside of ourselves.

Maybe that is the secret all along - when we reach out and the gifts we all have inside of us shine. They bring joy, smiles, and laughter to others. These are very contagious things! They tend to make us stop and remember how it feels to be loved and how each one of us is Important in the Big swirling whirl we call everyday life.