A sense of wonder – does this describe you? Do you wake with excitement and wonder about what you will do in the day, what you might learn, who you might meet? Do you approach your day, your life with this mindset? If not… why?
A sense of wonder gives a freshness to the day. It heightens your intensity about what might be possible, what you might experience, what you may discover and learn. And all that can occur within the context of the world in which you live. No day can ever be precisely like the previous one. And your attitude makes all the difference.
What a bore it would be to only expect today to replicate yesterday – whether or not what yesterday was and brought was ‘good’, or not so much. (Gasp… what if it was not good!) Reason? Because if you extend this thinking then a week or month from today would only be a continuous repetition and that would be boring. I always recommend an outlook that expects. Your ‘expect-er’ is your gauge about how you will even recognize and enjoy the different or unexpected. It’s not an intensity that brings stress or concern, but an attitude about how you face your day… and by extension, your awareness.
The best mate, in my world, to a sense of wonder is creativity. I’m completely convinced that we mis-define what creative is, means, and its importance in our lives. Unfortunately, we seem to regard creativity with a slightly jaundiced and distrustful eye. If ‘it’ is different or unusual or unexpected then the level of trust is low. Or, the opposite reaction occurs, a ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater’ – a distrust of the ‘conventional’ simply because its the status quo. Both attitudes are incorrect and misguided.
Expecting, increasing your expect-er level can always be increased with use. If you give people, life the opportunity… sometimes they/it surprises us. But when we use our ‘pre-determin-er’ we are bound in the status quo because we don’t see the creative, the unusual, the out-of-the-box.
