Daily Gratitude: “Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.”

“So what? Everything sucks!” You might reply vehemently. “You just don’t understand”

But I do understand. I understand a few things. One – I’m sorry you’re having a tough time but two – there is nothing I can do to change that tough time and if we just keep commiserating about it, it’s not going to make things better. In fact it will probably just make them worse because you’ll be dwelling on the bad so much.

It’s important I let you know that I support you and care about you. But it’s just as important that you know I want to help you raise your vibration so you can draw some good into your life to help elevate your mood at least a bit.

The best way to do that (increase your vibration) is to search for some good in your life. And I believe that there is always some good. Part of my job as a friend is to help you find it because when you’re down, it’s hard to identify even if it’s staring you in the face.

Embrace someone who’s trying to help you focus on the good instead of staying in the yucky part. Why would a friend want to leave you standing in the rain when they have an umbrella they are offering you. And why would you want to stand out there getting drenched when you could be under that umbrella your friend is offering you.

Find the good and be grateful for it.

Daily Gratitude: “For all that has been, thanks. To all that shall be, yes.”

When you are doing a gratitude journal or a gratitude practice, consider giving thanks for what is going to come to you, not just the things you’ve already received.

Why?

Because the universe doesn’t know time like you do. Remember it’s operating based on vibrations. And when you give thanks for something that you can’t yet see but want, it will pick up on that vibration and start to create the proper circumstances.

You can’t just write or say this thanks once though. You have to feel as if you have received it already. Be happy about it. Feel it’s a part of you. Make it a part of you. You need to emanate or be in that vibration all the time. It’s the constancy of being in that state that will continue to draw it to you.

This may not happen right away and some people have decided when they feel the universe should deliver. You should know my thoughts on that by now. Your gift will come when it’s supposed to come and it may not be in the form you asked for but it will be exactly right for hour path.

In 2019 I wanted to get a new car. I did all the right things. I listed all the features I wanted and visualized it etc. it didn’t happen. And I “gave it” several months and then I just stopped putting a lot of energy into it. It still didn’t come but the pandemic did. And I retired. So it went on the back burner.

When the pandemic was over, I eventually got back to the car. To make a long story short. I got exactly what I needed and wanted and more importantly I got it for the price I had been willing to pay before the pandemic and there are no cars at that price post pandemic.

Why did it take so long. Lots of reasons but I was still in love with my old car and I didn’t want to get rid of it. Plus and more importantly, I didn’t take enough action in 2019 to find it. I acted as if someone would just drive it to my door. It doesn’t work that way. You have to take action. I never went looking for it. It was just a wish at that point.

It was a great lesson. Give gratitude for what is coming your way and then take action to make it happen.

Daily Gratitude: “As a water pot is filled by the falling of drops, so a wise person is filled with good by accumulating it little by little.”

We’re in such a hurry nowadays. It’s not the “age of Aquarius” (who remembers that 😊?). It’s the age of instant gratification.

That wouldn’t be so bad because in a way, that desire drives us to take action. The problem is when we have to have EVERYTHING right now, not just a piece of “it”. Not just the small result of a small action step that was taken. We have to have it all. And we have to have it right now.

That’s one thing doing Vol State does for me. It slows everything down. I can’t reach the Rock in one day. Not even two. I have to accept and strive for one small group of miles each day – and, be satisfied with that. Don’t you think I was disappointed when I had to drop this year because of my back? Of course I was. If I’d been able to get it done in one day I wouldn’t have had to drop. I would have made it before my vertebra collapsed. But that’s not how it goes. I accumulated little bits (miles AND experiences) as I went along. And those miles and experiences gave me so much more than if I’d be-bopped right up to the Rock.

If you’ve ever had a leaky faucet you understand at least the first part of this quote. Or a leaky roof. The water drips into the pot. At first you really can’t see anything. But after a bit, when you look in the pot you begin to see a layer of water. Later it’s deeper and so on.

People often don’t donate any money to a cause because they feel their one dollar won’t do anything; that it’s insufficient. That people will think they’re stingy or poor. So they move on. What if 1000 people gave “only” a dollar? Would that be insufficient? Heck no. Maybe that dollar can help buy a cup of coffee (geez it used to buy more than one..sigh). It’s a bit of good. And it’s not even appropriate to say “a little” bit of good because labeling demeans the gift. It’s a gift from the heart. And that’s what life is all about.

What if you did a bit of good every single day. And you get to define “bit” and you can define it every single time? How do you think you’d look at life after a week? After a month? A year??