The Daily Word for February 9, 2021 #inspirationalthoughts, #inspiration, #inspirationalwords, #wordsofwisdom, #affirmation, #optimism, #poetsandwriters, #writerscommunity, #writers, #readers

 

ebullient - adjective - enthusiastic, energetic, cheerful

For obvious reasons, life in the time of COVID-19 begs to be ebullient. When you find it a challenge to distinguish what day of the week it is upon waking, it is hard to muster the appropriate amount of energy, no less mirth, to get through the day and into the night. Yet like most aspects of the day to day, it is not impossible to hug enthusiasm, energy and cheer. All you have to do initially is latch onto the motivation to do it. 

 Here are three recommendations for those of you who wish to embrace ebullience effectively:

1. Upon opening your eyes in the morning, withstand the initial impulse to check your phone on that nightstand. If you do, most likely you'll see something negative, i.e. the temperature outside (if you are experiencing winter weather), a stock market report in red (providing you own stocks), a Tweet of the total number of people who have died from COVID (there is little worse than that), or even a text from your sister who is planning on landing on your front steps mask-less within the hour. Instead, stay in the moment (in bed) and enjoy the sensory experience, meaning feel the thickness and warm of the comforter, smell the scent of fabric softener...you get the idea. 

2. Once you have succeeded in accomplishing #1, make a concerted effort to get out of bed, take a trip to the nearest window, and peer out between the blinds. Find one aspect of the natural world outside to be thankful for. Actually, find one thing, period, to be thankful for. For example, if you live in an urban area, if your car is still parked outside, is in one piece, and doesn't have a ticket resting beneath one of the window blades, that is something for which you should be ebullient. 

3. Take hold of the positive experiences from the above and consider them foreshadowing, meaning view them as omens of good luck. Yes, you are convincing yourself that absolutely nothing bad will bombard you throughout the day. If you are exceptionally talented in doing this, you will leave your bedroom and start the day ebullient.

Good luck! Carpe diem!