In today’s episode I’m talking about how to make February great when you don’t love Valentine’s Day. I am going to show you how to use re-framing and anticipation to make February great even if you are like me and you aren’t a fan of Valentine’s Day. Don’t give control of your happiness to anyone else, especially marketers, social media and retailers! Figure out what is great about YOUR February and focus on that.
Today I’m sharing 5 things I’m going to focus on this month to keep it positive. You are welcome to share mine or come up with your own. February is all about working the anticipation and re-framing muscle and creating things you can get excited about, instead of dwelling on things you can’t control.
Full disclosure, I am anti Valentine’s Day.
I don’t know when this happened however, I think I always felt that valentines were fake and we all gave them because it was expected as kids. It always felt like another way for people to get hurt and feel left out. Another popularity contest. I’m not really a fan of those…EVER…so once I got old enough I openly denounced this tradition.
All I know that, in my adulthood, I think that we should show our love many times throughout the year and not on an over marketed day that we are told is when we should show our love. I don’t like being told what to do…can you tell?
Happiness is about figuring out what brings you joy.
Don’t let anyone else tell you what your happy looks like. You can take back control of your happiness whenever you are ready.
Today I share with you how I make February great even though I don’t Love Valentine’s Day.
Links to references I made in the Podcast:
The Episode on The 5 Love Languages
The Happier You Newsletter– so you don’t miss out on the course launch of Building Your Happiness Foundation coming soon!
If you want to hear more about using anticipation as a happiness tools you check out the previous episode where I talked about it here: Bring Back Anticipation
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