Ten things to do right now in ten minutes or less to make it a great day

My unofficial mentor and inspiration in Toastmasters is a man named Peter Kossowan. I have a great amount of respect for Peter because as one of the oldest members of Toastmasters at the club, he says that he is constantly learning new things every single meeting. Quite a feat for a Toastmaster who celebrated his 50 year commitment to Toastmasters in 2019!

Every time we adjourned a meeting, he would often say something that nobody ever really thought about. Instead of saying “have a great day” which would be our typical response as we said our goodbyes to members in the morning, he would say “make it a great day”. It was not until a few meetings later that he explained why he said it this way. “Have a great day” means that you are letting the day’s circumstances affect whether you have a great day or not. In essence, a great day depends on whether or not things are happening TO you and whether those are good or bad things. In contrast, “make it a great day” assumed (correctly so I might add) that you have the power to make your day great. As opposed to having a great day, making it a great day means that YOU are in control of whether good or bad things happen to you and as Peter explained this at one of our Toastmaster meetings, a complete shift in how we perceived our life slowly started to take shape. Any day is…