Last week I started losing my voice a bit. By Friday morning I was feeling unbelievably sick. I had a horrible chest cough and was really weak. I ended up staying in bed all day Friday and Saturday coughing up a lung. When I woke up Sunday morning I could no longer take staying in bed so I got up and took a shower and got myself dressed for church. I was feeling really worried that I would have a mad coughing fit right in the middle of church so I loaded my purse up with Halls cough drops. Sure enough I had a coughing fit and had to run to the bathroom to hack up a lung\u2026my eyes were watering like crazy and I couldn\u2019t catch my breathe\u2026when I finally was able to regain my composure and go back into the meeting I immediately grabbed a Halls from my purse and unwrapped it to pop it in my mouth. That\u2019s when I noticed it\u2026the little printed writing on its wrapper\u2026<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s because I was feeling like garbage still from having been sick the last few days, or maybe it\u2019s because I was feeling lousy for the interruptive coughing fit, all I know is that when I saw the typed up messages on the Halls wrapper it was really meaningful for me.\u00a0 I had been popping Halls lozenge drops for days and I hadn\u2019t even noticed the little written messages on the wrapper, but this time I noticed that the wrapper had typed up in little print inside the Halls logo some motivational little sayings. The first wrapper said: \u201cKeep your chin up\u201d, \u201cYou got it in you\u201d, \u201cElicit a few \u2018wows\u2019 today\u201d, and \u201cA Pep Talk In Every Drop\u201d. It was exactly what I needed to hear in that moment.\u00a0 When I finished that drop and grabbed the next one its wrapper said:\u00a0 \u201cBe unstoppable\u201d, \u201cTurn \u2018can do\u2019 into \u2018can did\u2019\u201d, \u201cPush on\u201d, \u201cBet on yourself\u201d, and repeated \u201cA Pep Talk In Every Drop\u201d. I grabbed a third drop and this one said \u201cTake charge and mean it\u201d, \u201cMarch forward\u201d, \u201cDon\u2019t try harder, do harder\u201d, \u201cPut a little strut in it\u201d, and again repeated \u201cA Pep Talk In Every Drop\u201d.<\/p>\n
Brilliant \u2013 just brilliant. Of course anyone having to pop Halls drops is feeling lousy and could use a Pep Talk! It made me love Halls for thinking to do that on their wrappers. And what was even cooler was the subtlety they had done it with. Thank you Halls for giving me that pep talk and pick me up today. I needed it.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s pretty amazing what a few little encouraging words can do to make our day better. Write a few pep talk notes to yourself and spread them around places you’ll find them at random times.\u00a0 Frankly even when I get over my cold I think I\u2019ll keep a bag of Halls around just so I can unwrap a drop and get a little Pep Talk to lift me up when I\u2019m feeling down. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Have a great Monday everyone!<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n
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