My spouse has just gotten in some new inventory for her fair trade gift store. There are open boxes scattered around the living room with treasures from a dozen different countries--a handmade footstool from India, windchimes from Asia, jewelry, cups and much more.
It's like another Christmas when a new shipment arrives!
Our granddaughter was with us yesterday. She looked in one of the open boxes. It is filled with brightly colored shredded paper for packing the precious cargo. Our granddaughter looked at the paper and said, "Oh, Grandma, where did you get all this beautiful celebration! Look, it's celebrations stuff!"
She wanted to have a party right then and there with the multi-colored confetti.
Feel free to envy the creativity of this response! Do your best to be open to the immediate and to see all the possibilities of an experience. It's not "supposed to be" confetti for a party. It's just a bunch of expendable paper used for a quite mundane purpose. But in the fresh eyes of a four-year-old, this is a celebration that should not be wasted or ignored.
What opportunity is right in front of you that you are not seeing?
Can you step back and take another look?
If you think first about having fun and only later about working, will you see things in a new light?
Is it time to have a celebration?
Oh, and here's a link to the new store's Facebook page:
And this is one of the new acquisitions...
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