Everyday special days

It's my youngest son's birthday in four days time. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on which way you choose to look at it; he is still at that age when birthdays and Christmas are so exciting that you can't breathe let alone sleep for at least 10 days beforehand. Consequently, for the last eight days every other sentence out of his mouth has had something to do with his birthday. How many days away it is; whether he can stay up until midnight and open his presents; does he have to go to school?; Does he have to go to tae kwon do?; Who can come to his party? And so on and so on.

Worst still, he has been calculating with Bob Cratchit precision the amount of money he is likely to get in lieu of presents – and spending it! He's even tried to get me to pre-order items based on his expectations of his future gift money; his very own futures market. However I'm no fool; toxic debt is toxic debt even if it is your son’s.

Funny how we think our children aren't paying attention to what we do. My 11, soon-to-be 12-year-old son has already mastered the concept of selling something that you don't have; based on a value you can only guess at, to someone silly enough to be taken in by the idea that "thin air" has value! My mother always says that children are far better at picking up bad examples than adopting good ones. This seems to be a case in point.

I'm not sure just how much more of it I can put up with. I'm sure it's going to get worse as the days countdown from 4 to 0. When I mentioned this to my son, i.e. that all he has done for the last week is bug me constantly about his birthday; he said without missing a beat "but I went to school"!

Looking at it positively, it's nice to know that he is still excited about his special day. Wouldn't it be great if we could be full of the same excitement and anticipation for every single day? What would need to happen for you to look forward positively to every single day? To me the answer is simple, as simple as setting your mind on it. When you wake up decide what sort of day you want and order it up. You do this subconsciously anyway.

Have you noticed how if you wake up feeling terrible and expect the day to go badly it does? And if you wake up feeling on top of the world you end up having a marvellous day despite what actually happens. This is your system ordering up the day that you have subconsciously described. You can make a conscious decision to order up a fabulous day simply by affirming this when you wake up. That is using power adjectives to describe the day you want to experience. If you don't believe me why not give it a try – you haven’t got anything to lose. To help you out here are 26 words that you could use to order up your everyday special day.

Amazing, brilliant, charming, delicious, extraordinary, fabulous, gorgeous, hilarious, incredible, joyous, kind, loving, marvellous, nice, outstanding, perfect, quality, refreshing, superb, tremendous, unique, victorious, yummy, zestful.

I'm sure there are hundreds more. Do let me know how you get on I'd love to read about your experiences.