There are so many things in this world that I think need a little more appreciation. Here are some things that really need a little more attention.

Good Teachers. Teachers are so important and good teachers are hard to come by and when you have one you need to appreciate them. They shape the future literally and teaching kids and in turn letting them fall in love with learning is such an amazing gift that they don’t get thanked enough for. so tell your favorite educator that you value what they did for you

Slow dancing. No one knows how to waltz anymore? and I think we need to bring that back. There is something so intimate and magical about being locked with someone you care about being in sync to a beautiful song that I feel this generation is being deprived of. Also a man who can waltz is a chivalrous man.

Nature. We live in the age of technology I know, and I love tech! You’re reading this on a piece of technology so I would be out of work without it but I think we should all get into the habit of going outside a little more. Letting the sun hit your face, smelling all the things in the air, feeling grass between your toes, sitting in the shade of a big tree. Nature is taken for granted and we should tell her we love her more often.

Unwarranted Kindness. Paying for a strangers meal, holding the door open, letting someone over on the highway. Getting in the habit of giving more compliments than insults in a day. Smile at strangers, in a non creepy way. Big acts of kindness and little acts of kindness can generate so much positivity in the universe, and trust me it needs some positivity. Pay it forward - kindness is just love with its work boots on. We should all just be a little nicer, a little more courteous to one another. There are so many villains we face everyday, and you, even for two seconds doing something inconsequential to help someone just a little, can be on their team for a sliver of time. You don’t know the wonders that does.

Long car rides that involve a lot of singing. More people should make awesome playlists and play them on long car rides and sing with your friends. There is nothing more freeing than sitting comfy going 70 down the highway jamming and belting to your favorite songs.

Optimism. I really think people get stuck in their ways too often and refuse to open up their hearts and mind to new thing, ideas, the world. we, as a population, need to work to think of every perspective, say yes to more things, give more people the benefit of the doubt, giving and receiving more from the world around. Don’t become stagnant, never stop absorbing.

Try to do more of these things. Never settle, never stop changing, growing, you can always better yourself. There is such a stigma around changing when really I think life is best when you never stop discovering yourself and allowing the world to affect you. Let things impact you, react, fold, grow. Complacency and indifference has infected us and we need to cure ourselves of that.