Daily Gratitude: “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

It’s often helpful to make an intention of taking a certain period of time (a day, a week, a month etc) where you pay specific attention to only seeing the good in your life and around you.

Plan for this period. Figure out a way to catch yourself if you start complaining (the opposite of good). Come up with a mantra to redirect your thoughts. You can use something like this quote. Perhaps “my life is filled with abundance and everything that fills it up is good.” Or come up with your own redirection.

You might also have something like a swear jar where you determine how much money you’ll put in it if you complain? That could be fun.

Try this and then let others know how it has affected your life.

Daily Gratitude: “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

Anytime we can do anything with cheer and gratitude, it’s a win win situation.

It’s hard sometimes to give cheerfully when we’re bombarded by GoFundMe pages and requests “to just give a little”. We can feel surrounded or suffocated by all the “asks”.

But maybe there’s a way you can figure out how to be happy about whatever you give, no matter how small the amount. You can try to imagine yourself in the position of the person asking for help. Remember, too, that most of the time the person asking is embarrassed and desperate enough to do a GoFundMe campaign.

Think of their situation as emotionally as you can. That will most likely help you want to give more freely. Learn something from all those shivering puppies you see in the ASPCA ads.

It also helps to think of multiple ways you can give – not just money. I’ve talked about that a lot here. But it’s fun to come up with unique giving opportunities. Many of you have posted some of those ways before.

Just as importantly but maybe a bit harder is the need to accept gratefully. We can’t always give. We have to be able to accept things without qualification. It’s hard to receive when we’re so used to giving. It’s as if that protects us. We put up barriers to letting people get inside of us. They might see our vulnerability and we can’t have that can we?

Let others feel as good about giving as you do. It’s not fair to deprive others of the wonderful, cheerful feeling of giving. And you never know. You might actually learn to like it.

Daily Gratitude: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Read this again. Then go look in the mirror and say it to yourself.

Why?

For two reasons:
1. The most damaging injustice we do is the injustice to ourselves. The self-criticism, the doubt, the inner talk, none of which does any good in your life.

2. You may be walking around thinking that there is nothing you can do because the world is such a mess of injustice. That’s not true.

We have a responsibility to make the world around us as filled with justice as we can. It’s that easy. Don’t lie. Be kind. Treat others fairly. Help others out. Don’t fight or argue. Turn the other cheek.

How hard is that? Why don’t we put a lot of effort into this? Why do we use our telescopes instead of our microscopes?

Our telescopes help us see beyond our small little universe, watching the rest of the world, the world with situations and conditions that we have absolutely no influence or control over.

Our microscopes enable us to see our own little world, that world where we can dole out justice on a daily basis. Where we can influence the lives of our selves and of others.

Think about how you can be more just than you’ve ever been. Then make a determination every day that you will distribute that justice as best you can today!

You’ll be surprised at what this does for your life.