As you are getting out of bed in the morning, do you ever stop and wonder if other people at that very moment who are also getting out of bed dread the day that lies before them in the same way that you might be dreading your day?

Dread may be a bit of a harsh term, but maybe you are not looking forward to your day.  Maybe you are looking at the day that you think lies before you with a bit of tiredness.  You might be tired physically because you did not get as much sleep as your body might be asking for, or maybe you are just plain bored with the routine of your life.

These are natural feelings that most everyone has at some point in their life.  They may go away for a while and then come back periodically after you settle into another “routine schedule.”  Life calls for spontaneity and sometimes your schedule leaves no room for that or maybe you prefer the schedule, but are bored with it at the same time.

Every morning when you arise for a new day in this wonderful lifetime, how do you approach the day?  Do you work on “auto-pilot” as you ready yourself to go to work or school?  Do you do think with intention as the day progresses or do you continue to fly on auto-pilot?

Sometimes we have the feeling that there is nothing exciting about the upcoming day and maybe we feel a bit of anxiety about a scheduled meeting or a task that needs to be performed.  These are all very natural feelings, but not necessarily feelings that you need to accept.  These are thoughts that can create feelings that have a tendency to bring you “down” rather than lift you “up.”

Think of a time when you expected that something exciting might be happening at work.  Maybe you were expecting to close a big deal with a client, or you were expecting a promotion.  How did you feel on that morning?  Did you have little energy when the alarm clock awoke you and you needed to roll out of bed?   Think of when you were younger and maybe you had excitement for a big holiday or birthday.  As soon as you awoke, you most likely threw back the blankets, jumped out of bed and ran to your parent’s bedroom to wake them up for the “big day.”

Do you think on days like that you had more sleep than on other “mundane days?”  The answer is, no.  There was nothing different.  The difference was in your state of mind.  The difference was in the thoughts that you had, creating the excitement, which energized your body.

Each day can be like that if you are so inclined, but it all starts with a decision to make each day like your birthday – and once every 365 days you will be correct.  As you get older you may not enjoy your birthday any more than any other day, but that is a topic for another discussion.  If that is the case, you need to go back to a childhood birthday where maybe you received presents and ate cake.  Go back to the excitement that you had that morning.  Otherwise, think of something else like maybe a wedding or another anticipated positive event in your life.

Anticipation of your day is what creates the thoughts, that create the feelings that either “energizes” or “de-energizes” your body.   Your day does not begin with the alarm clock blaring to wake you, but rather with the anticipation that you define the night before.

Anticipation can be similar in concept to intention.  Setting an intention for what you currently are doing at this moment, can be “I am going to taste every bite of this meal,” or “I am going to give this essay my full attention.”  Anticipation is setting an expectation for what you think might happen at some point in the future.

Remember, though, what you think about you put energy towards and what you put energy towards is what you will see in your life.  This is a universal law in both the physical and non-physical planes.  So, that means that what you set your intention towards, creates energy so that is what you will see.   Similarly, what you anticipate is giving energy to an expectation of what you will see as well.

They are ultimately the same concept – anticipation and intention.  However, with anticipation it may be easier to approach a negative bent without realizing what you are doing.   “Oh this day is going to be brutal,”  might be the first thought that you place in your body as soon as you awake.   You may have remembered something that you need to do at work and you are dreading the thought of it.  Think about the implied intention you are giving yourself with thoughts of anticipation of your day such as that.

On the other hand what would happen if you start each day with something like,  “Wow, I get to walk this Earth another day.  I wonder what exciting things are going to happen today.”   Look at the shift in that one single thought and how it can affect your mood, your anticipation of the upcoming day, and the energy level in your body.

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Anticipation is a natural emotion that is often negative in nature.  Flip the switch to only anticipating positive things in your life and sit back while you see those things appear throughout this day.

Written Friday Dec 13, 2013