Daily Gratitude: This is perfect. It’s the best way to guide your actions. It will govern how you will treat others.

But it’s important for you to take the time to think about how you’d like to be remembered. Maybe write out what you want on your headstone and write your obituary.

Then add more specifics so there’s a lot of detail.

Once you have that down, read it at least twice a day for a few months and then at least once a day.

This will implant your desired qualities in your mind. Then take that same detailed list and figure out what that means about how you should treat other people. What is it you should ne doing on a daily basis?

Are you going to be remembered for how well you scrolled through social media? Is that going to he the headline on your obituary- “expert doomscroller”?

Or are you spending time volunteering, writing, teaching (even if it’s your own kids), or helping just one person? Wouldn’t any of those give a better headline?

Do reviews at least on a weekly basis. How are you doing?

Daily Gratitude: If nothing else gets you to pay attention to your thoughts this should.

Feeling down and out. The more you let yourself wallow in this feeling, the harder it’s going to be to get out of it. If you realize you’re feeling more negative, use the list items you’ve made, those great positive memories you’ve had to help you get out of that mood. Focus on those good things and that will help you raise your vibration. That will lead you to more positive emotions and soon you will be able to be back up on top again. It’s a process so you have to be patient. And you have to prepare in the way we’ve talked about before – creating a success/accomplishment list and another list of events that have put you on a bit high. Use these lists to remind you how you felt so you can “reach” for a higher feeling/vibration on the emotional scale.

Do you feel you have to have a lot of money in order to be happy or to be “ok”. Once you think that, you’ve given power to money. Is that what you want? We need to have the power over money not let it have power over us.

Same for Bright shiny objects. The need to have something new becomes an obsession. Then it has power over you.

Think about your life and what you have lost power to at various times in your life.

Daily Gratitude: If nothing else will get you to change how you view things, this should.

Wouldn’t it be special if you could realize that whatever happened to you was for the best? You might not be able to see it right now but just that faith that everything is always working out for you could make you smile no matter what.

I’ve mentioned that having that horrific post Shingles nerve pain may have saved my life. Isn’t it strange how something that makes you want to end your life can end up saving it. Had I not had that severe pain, I wouldn’t have been on gabapentin. Had I not been on gabapentin, my kidney disease would most likely not have been diagnosed until I needed dialysis. So 13 months of desperation ended up turning out for the best.

What’s going on in your life right now that you might want to try to develop a different perspective on?