Oh What A Beautiful Morning!

How many times do you wake up, and first thing in the morning, start singing (either in your head or aloud), “Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day.  I’ve got a beautiful feeling, everything’s going my way!”  I would imagine that your answer is, not often enough.  Therefore, as the apprentice Goddess of Joy, I whole-heartedly recommend that we all do this, every day, for the next two weeks, starting tomorrow (Wednesday, July 8, 2009), (or if you read this sometime into the future, then for your next two weeks!)

All sorts of very smart people have recommended the power of positive thinking, and they believe that with enough people thinking positively, we can cooperatively affect the baseline attitude of the masses.  In this spirit then, have you ever heard anybody recommend this specific strategy?  Singing the opening phrases of the wildly optimistic, wonderfully upbeat refrain from the musical, “Oklahoma?”  I haven’t (and if you have, I would be most honored if you would send me a note giving me the details!)

So what can it hurt?  You see, as the apprentice Goddess of Joy, it is my job to learn how to bring joyfulness to your life and mine.  My first assignment is to help one person find Joy.  It can be for a moment, an hour, a day.  Doesn’t matter.  Since I’ve noticed that my well-being, my “Joyfulness Indicator”, always is higher when I’ve got that wonderfully catchy tune stuck in my head, I thought, well, let’s see how it works as a “group project!”

Here are my recommendations for starting this project: Using colored markers or your best fun writing, write on an index card or a stickie note, “Oh What A Beautiful Morning!”  Put this card right next to your alarm clock so it will be the first thing you see in the morning when you wake up.  Then, each night for a few nights, just before you go to sleep, go to this You Tube link, and listen to Hugh Jackman singing "Oh What a Beautiful Morning!"  (just click these words.)  Or find your favorite rendition, with your favorite singer.  Within a few days, I hope that we all will start waking up with the words in our heads, coaxing us to see the beauty of each and every day.

I can’t wait to hear how this works!

Gentle Hugs,

Stevie

Apprentice to the Goddess of Joy