My Birthday Wish

I turn 44 today. Company policy dictates I take the day off, so I’ll be brief and share only my birthday wish with you.

Can I ask you to join me in a harebrained scheme over the next year?

Let’s look beyond each others’ quirks and flaws and try to find the good in one another, okay?

Let’s recognize that this… this… whatever it is… this thing called life is really, really hard.

But it really, really helps… a lot… if you can try and see and share and appreciate what people do well instead of merely focusing on what people do poorly.

If you catch yourself talking ill of another, stop.

If you catch yourself smack in the middle of an office gossip session, stop.

If you can’t say something nice, stop.

Look for the good.

Search for the nice.

Be kind.

It helps. Everyone.

I’m going to blow out my candles now. Have a happy year, okay?

I’ll try and do the same.