Celebrating Life => join my cake challenge
Yippie Yeah :-) I am celebrating my 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF BEING CANCER-FREE!
I will celebrate it with my family this weekend, serving my very own, freshly baked red velvet cake and following the principle "baking is love" :-) If you are ready to celebrate life, join my CAKE-CHALLENGE: ready, steady, bake .... enjoy your "masterpiece" with your loved ones and - as the cherry on top - share your cake-challenge-photo ........ baking is love!
And if baking is not at all your thing, I empower you ;-) to enjoy your cake moment in a coffee shop or simply buy your cake in the supermarket .... as long as you take the opportunity to celebrate YOUR life! When it comes to celebrating milestones, many people simply forget about it in everyday life, overlooking and being grateful about the progress they have made. Either they think that the progress is not significant enough, the success not big enough, the return still not generated, .... no matter what, it’s still too early for them to celebrate. They do not allow themselves and others to take out some time for simple celebratory enjoyment and acknowledgement of effort. And as a consequence they are missing out on joy, fun and the extra energy-kick that you get out of the celebration with team members, friends and family. For example, in our family we celebrate each birthday by adhering to our own "7 Wonders of Birthday Celebrations", enjoying 1) birthday breakfast 2) birthday dinner 3) birthday cake 4) birthday trip 5) birthday presents 6) birthday cards and 7) birthday flowers. It does not mean that we do all these 7 things in 1 day with the same people - that would be overkill ;-) The beauty is in spreading these 7 experiences across 2 weeks around the birthday, celebrating life with family & friends in separate joyful moments. 2 years ago, I celebrated my last day at the office before starting the cancer treatments with a “Happy Hour”, inviting colleagues to drinks & snacks and saying farewell. Last June, I celebrated my 1st anniversary of being cancer-free with a champagne-challenge to which I invited my global network of colleagues, friends and family. The response was heart-warming, and resulted in a BIG! photo collage that cheers me up everyday, reminding me of the immense support that’s out there.
