Birthday’s are a strange time of year for some folks.  For some people it is a time of joy, especially amongst the younger crowd.  As we get older, birthdays become a time of stress for many people because, I suppose, it’s a time that reminds them that they are getting old.  For me it’s a different story.  You see for me it has always been a great time of year, filled with love, presents, and family.  That could have to do with the fact that Christmas is the week after my birthday, but who am I to judge.

For the last few years, my birthday has taken on a different role in my life.  While it is still all about me, it is less about the people in my life celebrating my birthday and more about me celebrating another year of being me.  You see, there isn’t anyone else out there like me, just like there isn’t another version of you other there.  I, like you, am unique.  I have chosen my birthday to reflect back on the year that was.  I take that time to celebrate my victories, learn from my mistakes, and look forward to the year that will be.  I call this a ME day.

As the name implies, a ME day is all about ME.  Not you, not my clients, not my family (although they still play a big part of it), and not my business.  It is a day that I will often turn off my cell phone, redirect my office line to my assistant, and just enjoy the day to myself.  I find that my birthday is a perfect time to do this, as I have traditionally taken off my birthday from work or even school to just “get away from it all”.  A ME Day is a day that I spend in the Personal Room of my brain, avoiding the Social and Business Rooms all together (I do drop into the Family Room though!).  While I celebrate a my birthday as a ME Day, it’s not the only time I do this.  I generally have 15-30 of these ME Days through the entire year.

This year, I will admit that I did do a bit of work on my ME Day.  (I figured if I didn’t admit that, Peg would point it out!)  And that’s ok, because it is my choice.  I chose to work for fifteen minutes just to make sure that all was set up for the day, after which I proceeded to enjoy the day.  This year’s ME Day was all about enjoying the investor lifestyle.  I woke up late(r) than normal, I wore comfy clothes all day, and caught up on some movies I had wanted to watch with K.

In between the ME and K time, I wrote in my little red book (if we’ve met, you’ve probably seen it).   In my red book I did a list of things that I had done this last year to move forward.  I wrote about my passions.  I wrote about my new friendships and new Networks.  I also wrote about the things that I would like to improve upon.  I wrote about the stumbling blocks in the last year, followed by what I did to overcome them.  I wrote about my fears, and I wrote about the things that made me angry and felt out of my control.  Finally I wrote about next year.  I wrote about the things I am going to be doing, I wrote about the places I am going to go to, I wrote about my crusade.  I also wrote about the things I would enjoy doing over the next year.

While I don’t honestly feel that I have to do this, I know for me it helps to define my path.  It helps to bring clarity to my Vision.  After I have done this, I celebrate.  I celebrate all of my accomplishments, yet a ME Day Celebration is different.  I’m not sure if I can fully explain why, perhaps it is due to the reflection of the past.  Perhaps it is due to the projection for the future.  Or maybe it’s more in line with the fact that it is the celebration of everything, of life itself.

Ultimately a ME Day is a day of clarity.  With that clarity, it propels me forward to bigger, greater things.  With that clarity I can help others find theirs.  With that clarity, my Crusade pushes ever onward one life at a time.

When was the last time you took a ME Day to clarify your life?

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