How do you make an occasion special?

Nothing tells your special someone her life is worth celebrating than actually doing that once in a while. In a big way. A time-consuming way. Like the Easter crosswords I designed for Katie when she was little, which we discuss in great detail in this edition of Doing What Works. Katie says it wasn’t so much the presents she got on Easter as it was the fact she had to work for them. And now, looking back, it was how much love I put into every step of those Easter extravaganzas.

Here are your show notes…

What Color Is Your Parachute? author Dick Bolles [https://www.parachutebook.com/] says the ideal hobby uses skills you don’t normally employ at work.

“While work expands to fill the time, time expands to fill a mission.” That’s from Nell Scovell in Just the Funny Parts [https://www.amazon.com/Just-Funny-Parts-Sneaking-Hollywood/dp/0062473484].

“Love is the quality of attention we pay to things.” That’s from J.D. McClatchy [https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/07/13/kahlil-gibran-prophet-love/].