The Happiness of Routines

This week, I'm writing and shooting the Rochester International Jazz Festival for City Newspaper.  This means, quite simply, that I need a working camera, pen, and paper.  And each day that I go through my routine of checking the battery charge, the memory card space, and touching the other items in my press bag, I think it's time I could be writing or sorting photographs.  But, still, I even do the step of taking one test shot of a still life in my house before I walk out the door.

So today's happy comes from this routine showing me that I had not put the charged battery back in the camera.

I just saved myself a whole lot of un-happy.

It's the little things ~ Paloma

Save yourself a little time: you could go into get help or assistance with a negative attitude, thinking that you'll just give them a deadline and walk away, or... think happily.  You never know the situation, so why waste the energy on being rude?
Take this into consideration- when were you last pooped out from a day of SMILING? From a day that you decided would go well?
Make it a routine to smile. You'll be a whole lot lighter going to bed each night.
~Beth