Daily Gratitude: When you wake up in the morning, after giving thanks for waking up, you should take a few minutes to determine how you can make the day a reflection of your strength- make it your masterpiece.

Take a few moments ahead of time to decide what that means for you. What is your masterpiece. It doesn’t have to be of a global nature but it should be special to you. It may not be the same every day but hopefully all you have to do is focused toward the same type of purpose, such as serving others.

If you’re creating a masterpiece, you should take time figuring it out – what qualities, characteristics, and values make up that masterpiece. Your masterpiece is a puzzle and you are the one creating all the pieces. Use each day to add those pieces to the total makeup of the big picture.

On some of my days, my masterpiece consists of walking long miles.

On other days it’s writing.

The point is to begin your day with the enthusiasm and energy your masterpiece generates within you.

Try it.

Daily Gratitude: This is the one kind of fasting I believe in. You have to do everything you can to keep all
These negative things from inhabiting your brain….and soul.

It takes work. You have to be conscientious at noticing when you have entertained some of that negativity.

It helps if you allow yourself a set period of time to monitor your thoughts (internally voiced as well as external ones). Write them down. See if you can identify any patterns. That might make it easier when that monitoring period is over. You might be able to determine particular periods when you might need to be more vigilant.

Once you have an idea of what you need to pay attention to, figure out what you are going to use as replacement thoughts and beliefs. You have to be prepared with adequate material. Again it helps to have them planned.

This is a step by step process and you shouldn’t rush something this important. When I finally decided to give up smoking, I took a month to figure out what I was going to do instead of smoking. I thought of every possible scenario and what I’d do if certain things popped up. It worked and that was 30 years ago.

You can do this fasting! Don’t wait though. Start your planning now.

Daily Gratitude: Scarcity and Lack are two of the most destructive beliefs you can cultivate. It’s vital that you work hard to eliminate those beliefs.

It’s easy to see how you might think that scarcity exists if you concentrate on poverty. But when you put energy and attention on poverty it just leads to more of it.

It’s also something you can’t really control when it’s beyond your experience (such as in other countries ). I’m not saying to ignore the sorrows of others, just that you should do what you can do in your own world.

Think of unmeasured supply. There’s always enough. It may just not be visible yet. And it won’t be until you recognize the universe always provides. When things seem to be going the wrong way, decide that the answer is right there like Easter Eggs you might have tried to find when you were young. Your job is to uncover the golden egg (so to speak). How? Y believing it’s there.

When you believe it, you will see it. This is an important concept to remember and repeat whenever you begin to believe in lack.