Daily Gratitude: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

So many times we think we can just be in the movie theater of life, sitting in the audience, sipping our sofa, and munching on the buttery popcorn. Just observing, hardly ever absorbing, and certainly not “doing”. The movie ends, we get up and depart the theater. The bright sunlight blinds us to the lessons we just learned or should have learned. We go about our business as if the last two hours never happened.

How often do you sit and reflect on what’s happened in the last day, or week or month? I see. You’re too busy. OK. Too busy to learn from the lessons that the universe has bestowed upon you? Lessons that could change your life in such a positive way you can’t even imagine? Too busy for that?

We evolve, we grow, all based on lessons. We’re so used to having those lessons be handed to us on a silver platter by our parents or teachers that when those educators think it’s ok to let us go learn on our own, we don’t know how. We’ve been spoon fed so long that we don’t know what to do to extract lessons from life and then how to act upon those lessons.

You can begin by looking at your life, what has gone well and what hasn’t and then trying to figure out how you’d like to change to fix some of those things.

You’d be surprised at how well it will work …. If you just try it.

Daily Gratitude: “It’s not what you look at that matters, It’s what you see.”

We all see things differently. You can experiment with this to prove it. We’ve talked about it before.

There’s a story about two little boys. They are both put in rooms with a pile of horse manure in the middle of the room.

When they checked on each boy this is what they found.

One boy was crying and pressed up tightly against a wall, as far away from the pile as possible. When asked what he was doing, he cried and said “Let me out of here. It’s just a pile of bad smelling poop. There’s nothing here.”

When they went to check on the other boy, they found him right in the middle of the pile digging away happily. When they asked him what he was doing, he said “look at this big pile. It’s wonderful.” “Why” they asked. “Because with this much poop there has to be a pony in there somewhere. I’m going to find it.”

Think on that.

Daily Gratitude: “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

How much better can life be described? This is perfect. You know, we don’t have to be negatively affected by all the bad stuff in our lives.

When you focus on love, your vibration rises high. You feel good. The more you do it, the higher it goes. It can become a habit if we let it. How many people can you bestow your love on? Can you wake up every morning and make an intention to change your thoughts to love whenever they veer afar? Then hold yourself to that intention all day. At the end of the day, assess how you did.

Why assess? Because of the second part of this quote “guided by knowledge”. Find out what worked that day and what opportunities you missed. And then why were there opportunities missed. See what thoughts got in the way of giving love. What can you learn from it?

Next morning set the same intention but do so in light of the knowledge you gained in your review the night before.

Repeat each day.