You and I get an extra day every four years! How lucky!

Hey friends! Welcome back to the blog, and it’s a great one today because we are talking about things you can do today to take advantage of this extra day.

Fun Fact: I was today years old when I learned that the most common reason for why we add one day to the calendar every four years is to “keep the calendar in step with the seasons” according to this New York Times article. How very cool is that! What would happen without this extra day? According to an interview by NBC Chicago with Professor Younas Khan of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, “…after a few hundred years we [would] have summer in November.” So there you have it. There IS a reason behind this extra day!

Okay. Now let’s talk about three things I am doing on this Leap Day.

1. Leap Day Letter: I am writing letters to my future self (I’ll open it on Feb. 29th of 2028) sharing all the wonderful things in my life right now and hopes and dreams I have for my future. I also want to get my daughters to write a letter to themselves that they can open in 4 years and look back on how much they’ve grown in 4 years. I got this idea from Idlewild Cottage on instagram.
2. Leap Year Resolutions: I know you are working on your 2024 resolutions right now, but what about making 2-3 goals to accomplish in the next 4 years that are different than the ones you attempt yearly! What about learning to paint, speak a new language, garden, travel, start a business, save for retirement or any other goal that you know would take 3-4 years to accomplish. I think it’s amazing! I am definitely going to do this! Join me, wont’ you? 🙂
3. Create a Leap Year Tradition: Why not start a new tradition? Life is full of different moments that bring us joy and give us so much to look forward to on a daily basis. Why not do something just on Leap Day that can bring you joy and allow you to anticipate this day in 2028? For us, we are going to start the tradition of writing letters to our future selves and painting a picture of what our lives will look like in the next 4 years. Another tradition could be to look back on the last 4 years and give thanks for all that life has brought since 2020.

Share with me what is it that you do or don’t do on this day. May be it’s just a normal day for you. May be you don’t even notice it on the calendar. May be it’s the one day you look forward to every 4 years! Anything is possible!

Be well!

~Nilo

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