Not every day will be incredibly awesome. Not every day will be crummy. Most days, nothing fantabulous happens. But the great days — the really special days — are built on the momentum of the completely average Thursdays. What you do on the normal, blah days makes the magic happen later. The hard but immeasurably important thing is to keep believing that your efforts make a difference — that not the slightest, tiniest effort goes unrewarded. Every cause has an effect, which means that every good thing you do will — eventually — result in more good things happening.

Try this meditation for one minute today, or longer if you wish:

THINK ABOUT the little things you’ve done today — the mundane stuff, like packing lunches or brushing teeth. What would happen if you hadn’t done them? Notice how even mundane tasks matter, by considering the absence if they were left undone.

Great is the reward of virtue. The vicious suffer. —Sri Sai Baba, Indian spiritual master

How did this meditation go for you? Share your experience with your fellow North Shore Bank employees at shorelines@northshorebank.com and you’ll be entered to win a copy of Mindfulness in Plain English, by Bhante Gunaratana.

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