“Make Up Your Mind Day” is celebrated every December 31st—a fun, unofficial day dedicated to decision-making! It’s the perfect time to tie up loose ends, resolve indecision, and finalize plans before the new year begins. Whether it’s deciding on New Year’s resolutions, big life choices, or even small things you’ve been procrastinating, this day encourages you to commit.

Ideas to Celebrate:

1. Tackle One Big Decision – Pick something you’ve been indecisive about and make a firm choice today.
2. Make a Pro-Con List – Use this tool to weigh the options and help you decide.
3. Reflect on Past Decisions – Look back on choices you made this year. Celebrate the good ones and learn from the tough ones.
4. Help Someone Else Decide – Be a sounding board for a friend who’s struggling with their own choices.

Computer Security Day

November 30 is Computer Security Day. The unofficial holiday encourages people to secure their computers and their personal information.

Computers, electronic devices, and smart phones have made our lives easier by making communication faster, more convenient and more efficient. At the same time, they have created many privacy and security issues. The holiday reminds people to stay on top of their computer security and to take steps to make their personal information and data secure.

What To Do?

• Using the same old password or the same password for all your online accounts? You may be vulnerable to hackers. Spend the day changing and updating your passwords.
• Sign up for a password manager that not only generates random passwords for you but can also save them for you so you don’t have to remember them.
• Update all your spyware and malware protection software.
• Back up your files and photographs.
• If you own a business or are responsible for organizing events at your workplace, why not hold a computer security seminar for your employees and co-workers? Draw up a security strategy and best practices for all of them to follow and present it at the meeting.

FYI…

…that the first known computer virus was called the Creeper Virus? The virus affected the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network or ARPANET, the precursor to today’s internet.

Sorry Charlie Day” is observed on April 6th each year. It’s a quirky, unofficial holiday that celebrates the idea of rejection—in a humorous and lighthearted way.

Origin:

The name comes from the old “Sorry, Charlie” line used in commercials for StarKist tuna in the 1960s. In the ads, a cartoon tuna named Charlie was always trying to be selected by StarKist, but he was repeatedly rejected with the phrase:

“Sorry, Charlie. StarKist doesn’t want tuna with good taste, StarKist wants tuna that tastes good.”

What it’s about:

• Sorry Charlie Day is a day to reflect on rejection in life—jobs you didn’t get, relationships that didn’t work out, opportunities that fell through—and how they often lead to better things.

• It’s about embracing those “no’s” and turning them into growth or redirection.

How people observe it:

• Share stories of rejection that led to something better.

• Laugh about old rejections with friends.

• Maybe even watch old Charlie the Tuna commercials for a retro throwback.

Want to celebrate it this year? You could post your own “Sorry, Charlie” story or just give yourself a pat on the back for bouncing back from past setbacks.