Valentine’s Day Challenge: A 2nd Chance at a Fresh Start
Valentine’s Day does not only have to symbolize a day where you show love and affection for your significant other or wish that you had a significant other or reminisce on past love if you are single.
Since the theme of Valentine’s Day essentially is love, I think that it is time to use February 14th as a day to mend old riffs, disagreements, or to tell someone in your life exactly why you appreciate them.
It is from this viewpoint that I came up with the Valentine’s Day Challenge. Why is it a “Challenge”? It is not easy to share honest feelings but I think the rewards will be worth the effort.
Collaborpedia is all about people and ideas in the spirit of collaboration and co-working. You cannot effectively work with another person in any relationship, whether business or personal without first working out the conflicts that exist within your own personal life.
So on this Valentine’s Day weekend: I challenge Collaborpedia readers to do one of the following:
V-Day Challenge
- Contact a person in your life that is a friend, family member, and tell them that you love them. Provide one specific action that the person did on your behalf that you’ll never forget.
- Contact a person that you may have recently re-gained contact with after a long period of time, share with them what their friendship meant to you at that time period in life.
- Contact a person that you have had a disagreement, divorce, argument, quarrel, feud with. Let them know that although you disagree with them, you wish them success and the best in life
- Contact a person that does a service that benefits your life. This could be the mailman, dry cleaners, baby sitter, etc. Tell them THANK YOU for all that they do
and share with them how difficult life would be if they weren’t so darn good
at what they do.
If you find that you cannot complete the challenge , then call someone and tell them about it. In a world of uncertainty, strife, and confusion, simply letting people in your life know that you care can go a long way.
If you complete the challenge, leave comments on who you contacted and the reaction that they had, maybe I can get some audio of a phone call that I make and post it up as an example, we’ll see. - Mr.Shadeed 