The "Carpe Diem" Factor, Making Someone's Day, and How $1 Mimosas Can Change Your Life

You hear “seize the day” all the time, but how often do you actually see someone do it?

Lifestyle coach Brent Smith tells an intersting story that demonstrates the true meaning of “seize the day”:

One day, he was at a restaurant getting brunch and found that the restaurant was serving $1 mimosas. Now, some people would just look at that and go “oh, great. I’ll have one!” Some adventurous people might go “well, then I’m going to order three! LOL YOLO!”

But Brent Smith likes to seize the day.

So what did he do? He ordered twenty - and began handing them out to people for free.

The result, says Brent, was anarchy: essentially, an instant party was created. While Brent and his friends said “happy free mimosa day,” people were so grateful that Brent made new connections, right then and there.

That, my friends, is the essence of a suave person: someone whose unique take on the world and life experience allows him to take an ordinary event and make it extraordinary.

We’re floating on a blue marble zinging around the sun, friends, and if we’re lucky, we’ll get a hundred zings around the sun before we’re pushing up daises. The time to live an extraordinary life is not when the GetSuave sidebar is finished, when you’re finally ripped, when you have enough courage to do it…the time is now. The day is today.

A suave person knows that and acts accordingly.

Ideas for Seizing the Day, Today

• Tip someone generously. Watch how an ordinary day becomes an extraordinary day with a few extra papers left on a restaurant table.
• Pay for someone’s groceries and you just might hear someone say “you made my year.”
• Fast Food Fee: The next time you go through a fastfood drive-through, punish yourself by paying for the next person in line’s meal, too.
• Give out Christmas gifts. Your boy Mr. ChiCity demonstrates.
• Break a personal record. Like this scene from Facing the Giants.
• Ignore the bystander effect and help someone. Like this Olympian’s dad did when he marched through security to help his son.
• Find your 20 seconds of insane courage like Matt Damon did.
• Be there for someone, the way this bus driver was there for this woman.
• Go exploring like Calvin.
• Work on your dream, no matter where you are.
• Encourage somebody the way this crowd encouraged this kid.
• Randy realizes that he doesn’t have to keep being an asshole.
• Making girls smile doesn’t require being rich or handsome.
• This poo-ah named Craig makes everyday situations funny.
• This Internet-famous random dancer managed to start a dance party through sheer force of will (watch the exponential power of social proof).
• This biker helps a blind man get back on track

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