Beginning a day, a project, a new phase of life carries its own energy. We looked at the idea in the ‘reset on the long weekend post. Today we look at rituals, or habits if you like, at day’s end. You’ve read about my dedication to fresh starts as a long weekend reset; today I present you with the magic of the end-of-day options.
Your daily fresh start is dictated by your priorities and responsibilities to others in your sphere at home, work, gym or community. You’ve no doubt noticed that even if you lost control of your bedtime, you have dominion over your day’s start, and with these tips, its glorious end.
Labour Day Weekend signals time to be done with things as the year ages. Festivals, summer foods, and style, summer loves and footloose freedom turn to school and office schedules. A caveat for Living to Deadline: strive not to send signals that say you are done in life. Avoid loss and lack in nine key areas. The categories appear in social posts by an alleged 100-year-old Japanese doctor. While the character is likely a fictitious aggregate, the principles are worthy of action and are backed by science.
You’d think it’s staggered starts, like in a race with blocks and lanes for fast runners on a track. No, it’s me.. I always feel like I am just getting into my lane, but it often proves to be a false start.. Frankly, even getting down low and in position could only happen in my dreams; I just don’t have that kind of flexibility at this time. Might get it back, but need to train for that. However, even the most enticing and rewarding goals falter on the track due to inconsistency.
Today is Lunar New Year with all the gallantry and power of the Year of the Horse. Ramadan begins shortly with shorter fasts as it returns to winter months, Black History Month continues and many 
Here’s to heaping helpings of joy, health, wellbeing and belonging, expanded, in plain language, following the original outline offered in Dr. Chatterjee’s ‘Happiness Prescription’.
In North America, it heralds declarations of love through greeting cards, chocolate, jewelry, flowers, gourmet dinners, and reservations for spa treatments. You’d get the idea that happiness if not full-blown authentic capital L O V E is something exchanged, gifted, and celebrated outwardly. But what about those of us, well most of us now, that are deskbound alongside our automated calendars as we get closer to ‘the official day’ and all that is commercial romance?