Where do you picture yourself 10 years from now?

Getting that big promotion that you worked so hard for? So hard that you made phone calls on the weekends. So hard that you sent e-mails while you were on “vacation.” So hard that you traded sleep for spreadsheets.

All for what? To achieve happiness some day?

Why not just make “some day” today?

If you spend too much time working for the future, for the next big thing, you’ll miss what’s right in front of you.

Whether you’re graduating high school or in the audience watching your grandchild, sister, or son graduate, you have to remember to appreciate the little things.

•A good hair day

•Finding a heads-up penny

•Laughing

•The smell of spring

•Walking into class to find a sub

•Seeing the waiter come around the corner with your food

•When your favorite song comes on the radio

•Having free first period

•Having free last period

•No homework on Schoology

•Snow days

•Seeing your camp friends outside of camp

•Putting on a shirt just out of the dryer

•Waking up early and realizing you can go back to sleep

•Older kids saying hi to you in the hallway

•A teacher telling you they’re proud of you

•Finding something you lost

•Falling asleep to rain

•Fridays

•Your dog greeting you at the door

Your happiness right now is just as important as your happiness in 10 years.