By Jane Vest

Do you greet each morning with a sense of anticipation or is it just another day? Would you like to stay in bed and sleep your life away? Get up! You don't know what awaits you, what the day will bring.

If you plan your day, it does not always follow that you will be able to see those plans through. Something may intervene to make the day more pleasurable. A friend you haven't heard from in ages appears. What a pleasant surprise! Or an item you thought you had lost forever turns. Life is full of surprises.

What is your attitude toward these surprises? Is it a continuation of the morning anticipation or the depressed idea of a humdrum day? "What's next" is a challenge to your flexibility, the ability to "roll with the punches." Those who are overwhelmed by catastrophes such as earthquake, flood, famine, massive pollution have no morning anticipation, they see only the reality of what is before them. However, you should never underestimate the power of the human spirit. When you hit bottom, there is no place left to go but up, and from there - what's next?