Are you ready for the Leap Year? That’s right, 2024 will bring us one extra day! Instead of 24/7/365, it will be 24/7/366. Have you considered what you will do with your extra day?
Imagining a Free Day
Granted, our ordinary lives will not be suspended so that we can claim February 29 as a completely unencumbered 24-hour span. But, imagine if it were. Imagine if you didn’t have work and other commitments that day. Imagine that it wasn’t simply going to be another Thursday in February. Now, what would you do with that free day?
Planning for Your Free Day
Even though we can’t claim February 29 as our free day, we can still use it to consider our options. With February 29 as our motivation, we can ask ourselves what we would really like to do if we had the ability to claim a day for ourselves without any outside obligations.
If you had an entirely free day, what would you do with it? Would you want to travel somewhere? If so, would it be someplace you’ve never been or someplace you’ve always loved? Would you want to spend your day alone in the quiet or surrounded by as many friends as you could muster? Would you use it for a favorite sport/hobby/activity or would you try something you have never done before?
More Than Wishful Thinking
Whether or not we can do anything we want on one particular day, we should still allow ourselves the time to think about our options. Call it hope or aspiration or simply wishful thinking—what matters is that we keep dreaming about what we might like to do. Imagining something is the first step toward making it happen.