Features embroidered team logo on the front with stretch fit sizing. The Bounce cap features a ball bouncing with childlike writing.Its official. Spring has sprung. Goodbye, Mister Gray Skies. Hello, Miss Sunshine.
I hope you have walked around your house and de-winterized it. Threw away anything resembling that season. Pinecones, evergreens boughs and holly berries have got to go. Its time to display bird nests and eggs, daffodils and butterflies. Open your windows. Wash the blankets. Get a puppy.
Winter and spring have become for methis week especiallymetaphors for everyday living. I have noticedmore than usuala predominant and unfriendly ethos floating around the world. A winter-like graying of people and their zest for life. With the arrival of spring, its time to change that. And for good.
Just last week, when I was changing in the gym locker room, a fellow lap swimmer waltzed in donning the cutest bathing suit. Totally fabulous. Orange tankini. So I commented (couldnt help it of course): Wow! Thats a great suit!
No response.
Thinking she was hard of hearing, I looked her in the eye and repeated myself. GREAT suit! inflecting my voice so she would really take note.
She looked straight at me, kept walking and said nothing. Just opened the door towards the pool.
Whats up with that?!?
I stood back and shook my head. What a hag, I thought. She couldnt have even stopped to say thank you?
And so it goes. People in their own little worlds. Without thought or time for anyone else. Wandering around with no bounce in their steps nor sparkle in their eyes. Living in winter moments of gray rather than spring moments of (lime) green.
My plea this week is simple: Live as if you believe in the hopes and promises of spring. Greet others with a smile. Say good morning to a complete stranger. Look at a colleague in the eyes and ask how he is doing. Laugh with your eyes. Shake someones hand firmly. Answer the phone cheerfully. Open the door for the mailman gratefully. Drive courteously.
You will stand out in the world. And be respected and admired for embracing life with spring-like exuberance. With joie de vivre. Its not difficult. Takes very little extra energy. Just requires thinking about others. Of shifting ones mindset.
Its what the world needs at spring. Totally. Spring has sprung. Live it.
Carolina Fernandez has been guiding mothers through the trenches of frontline motherhood for almost twenty years. She wholeheartedly embraces her role as mother mentor to todays young moms all over the world. Through her own observations and experiences of the oftentimes lonely and painful unchartered waters of parenting while raising her own four kids away from family, friends and hometown, she helps other moms navigate similar waters. She founded the ROCKET MOM SOCIETY, an international club for moms, where she hopes to encourage, equip and empower moms for excellence. To become a member or for more details, please visit http://rms.clubexpress.com
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