Happy Leap Day! February 29th is your lucky day. In fact, it’s luckier than a 5-leaf clover. And it’s rarer than a mooing steak. In fact, it is so rare that it only happens every 4 years. Like the Olympics, a Presidential election, or a J-Lo wedding.
Opportunity Day!
However, it is not the rarity of Leap Day that matters. It’s the opportunity. Today is a bonus day! Which means that today is the perfect day to do something extra. Like Michael Jackson said, today, ‘You got to be startin’ somethin. Or finishing somethin’. Or working hard on somethin’.
Take a few minutes to think about those things you can never seem to find the time to start, plan or complete. Take a leap and get rolling today.
Possible Leap Day Activities:
- Exercise
- Take a hike
- Play a Game
- Start a blog, vlog, slog, or drink Glogg
- Start a business
- Pick up a new hobby, or re-engage in an old hobby (like Holly)
- Create a podcast
- Play an instrument
- Create a product
- Start a book (reading or writing)
- Paint
- Marie Kondo your house
- Volunteer, or sign up to volunteer
- Go to church (or find a place of worship to go to this week)
- Start a meetup
- Join a club or worthy organization
- Ask someone to be your mentor.
- Call someone you haven’t talked to for too long
- Find a Dentist
- Find a Doctor
- Find a nurse
- Find a lady with an alligator purse
- Start your taxes
- Plan a vacation
- Organize a girls’ night, or a guys’ night, or a Michael Knight
- Make a career or life plan
- Do something more you, because no one knows you better than you
Bonus Time Is Start Time
I started planning my own business, The Weaponry, during a little bonus time like you have today. Now we have been in business for nearly 8 years. We have 2 offices and clients from Quebec to California.
I started this blog during a little bit of free time. This is post number 966.
During the last leap year in 2020, I used the bonus free time provided by the COVID-19 lockdown to write my first book, What Does Your Fortune Cookie Say?
Today, will use some of my bonus time to work on my next book currently titled, Adam Albrecht’s Next Book. Catchy, I know.
The 3 Big Bs
My business, blog, and book represent the 3 biggest elective projects of my life. And they were all birthed during bonus time. It was time that I used wisely.
Now it’s your turn to do something meaningful. Don’t miss the opportunity today is offering You.
Key Takeaway
Time is your more precious resource. Use it wisely. Alchemize it into magic. And when you get a bonus day or a bonus hour, take advantage of it. Otherwise, when you come to the end of your time, you will wish you had.
Which begs the question: What will you do with your Leap Day?
Note: Happy Leap Day Birthday to my friend Jeff Hilimire, who turns 12 today.
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