What will you do with your bonus day?

Today is a “bonus” day!

Yes, that’s right every four years we are given a “bonus” day on February 29th! Every four years instead of 365 days, we get 366! Every four years we get a full extra 24 hours! Today is that extra day.  What will you do today with your bonus day? 

How about all those things that you have been putting off until you have “more” time?

• Organizing those photos, making a dent in that scrapbooking project or completing some journaling
• Reading or finishing that book that you heard was so fabulous
• Making that long overdue doctor or dentist appointment
• Cleaning or organizing that “junk drawer”, spare bedroom or garage
• Sitting down and planning your yearly calendar to include meaningful family traditions that you keep wanting to do but never seem to get going on them

Or maybe you could use your bonus day to do something positive for other people and your community?

• Volunteer at a homeless shelter or soup kitchen
• Grab a trash bag and go pick up all the trash on your street
• Visit the elderly, sick or shut ins
• Call a stressed out Mom of toddlers and take her kids to the park or mall playground for a couple hours
• Help a single Mom or widow with the yard work, house or car maintenance

Or what about spending the day enriching your relationships?

• Spend time really playing with your kids on their level (even if that means getting down on the floor and playing “pollies”)
• Call your spouse just to say I love you & appreciate you (and husbands – bring home flowers for no special reason) – go out on a special date night
• Ask your loved ones what would be their “perfect day” and then make it happen for them
• Call that long lost friend from the past just to say hi and catch up
• Invite that family you have been wanting to get to know over for dinner
• Take your neighbors some yummy fresh baked cookies
• Sit on the couch with your family and read a book together (and turn OFF the TV!)
• Write notes of love, support and appreciation to all those imortant people in your life
• Mend a broken relationship – say you are sorry, ask for forgiveness – forgive and forget

Or maybe you just need a complete day “off” to rest, relax and be renewed and refreshed so that you can continue to live a life all year of meaning and purpose.

 Just some thoughts for you on this – February 29, 2008 – now you decide how you will spend your “bonus day”. Will it just be “the same ole, same ole” or will you make it truly a special bonus day?

P.S. – If you are reading this at the days end or perhaps even days after February 29th – you still got a bonus day but if you used it just doing the “norm” then take today or tomorrow and make it your bonus day!