A Good Day: Beauty Of An Ordinary Day Beyond Material Things

Some people may define a good day as a day when they have enough money in their pocket to eat, travel, and have access to the good things in life. Others may see it as a period in their life when they were able to achieve success in different dimensions, network, click some powerful opportunities, and meet their destiny helpers.

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On the other hand, some are in the hospital, eating through tubes, passing by-products through pipes or catheter, lying down for months, unable to raise any part of their body. All they do is wish for a good day in their lives when they can use their systems and organs very well or even be able to do the things they have not been able to do. Again, some others are healthy without food, hungry without money in their pockets, hoping, trusting, working hard, and looking forward to good days in their life. Now, the question is: with the above narratives, what is my definition of a good day?

Life, they said, is not balanced, so apparently one man’s food may become another man’s poison. Every day I wake up from my bed is already a good day. My salient question in those few minutes of waking centres around how did I wake up? What woke me up? And did every other person in this whole world wake up successfully the way I did?

One day, while at the office, I got a call from one of our parishioners who told me that one of our female members slept and didn’t wake up that morning. This was after having an interesting time out with the family before bedtime. Other times, I heard about another person that waked up and landed at the hospital bed just like that.

Therefore, each day I wake up, my day is a good one already. It now depends on me to make that day productive by working circumspectly. I also ensure that I follow up with my written action plans and set goals for the day. After all, it is said that he who fails to plan, plans to fail. Those action plans will kickstart my day from plans to actions and deliverables.

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Furthermore, being in good health and meeting my objectives or plans for the day will definitely put smiles on my face and make that day even better than good. However, that does not mean that if those plans did not work out as envisaged, that my day is bad. No, rather, it only shows that I am a human who can make mistakes and fail. However, decorum demands that I rise again, look back at the mistakes, try again, restrategise, and push further to a better day.

In the end, my goal is to be happy with my daily progress, celebrate my little wins, learn from the failures and mistakes of yesterday for a better tomorrow. Having said that, my definition of a good day is every day I wake up with another chance to live, make impacts, and right my wrongs. An opportunity to continuously refine myself and live as a better version of myself.