February Is Not Just About Valentine's Day

Did you know that February is filled with many reasons to celebrate? Yes! February is not just about Valentine’s Day.

Bad news: You’ll have to design your own greeting cards because there’s no section for this at the card shop.

Good news: Dinner reservations should not be a problem.

February is National Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month and National Spunky Old Broads Month! I wish I’d known about this ahead of time so I could have taken full advantage of the 29 days… but I do have a few days left to plan activities.

If there weren’t already enough to celebrate, it’s also National Pull Your Sofa off the Wall Month! My calendar is filling up here. February is also Laugh-Friendly Month and National Canned Food Month, so do plan accordingly.

What started me researching all these designations was hearing that February is International Expect Success Month. I thought it was timely since most New Year’s resolutions tend to sag a bit by now. Karla Brandau says, “Expect success, and then work as if there is no other option.” I’m glad she said that second part because sometimes expecting success alone ain’t gonna cut it.

Let’s say you want to lose weight. Just expecting the heck out of it, isn’t going to get you to your goal. What is missing? “Work” comes to mind almost immediately. ThoughtCo gives us a definition for work: “In physics, work is defined as a force causing the movement—or displacement—of an object. In the case of a constant force, work is the scalar product of the force acting on an object and the displacement caused by that force.

Though both force and displacement are vector quantities, work has no direction due to the nature of a scalar product (or dot product) in vector mathematics.” If force is displaced constantly and vectorially into the expectation, you’re good. But if force sits on the couch eating Fritos, it will not go anywhere. It will sit there lumpily. You know, in that little way, that expectations have. This is physics, people. So, if you are struggling with keeping a particular resolution, give yourself a second chance at it.

Until next time – Keep It Simple!