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??

Daily Gratitude: “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”

When you accept the premise behind this quote, you might cease being so impatient with how things are going.

Have you ever made plans to go somewhere or do something, working hard to get everything right? Then the event occurs. It can go very well; it can go horribly wrong; or it can be somewhere in between. We’ve talked about this before as far as expectations are concerned. By that I mean take some time to determine if things really were okay but just not as great as you expected (hoped) they would be. You can then change your opinion of how things went by removing or altering your expectations.

But this quote is about accepting that there is a reason for what happened when they actually did have problems or went badly.

Accept it. And declare it good (that’s thanks to the great Catherine Ponder). Stop getting your own way because you think you know how everything is supposed to work out. You don’t. Remember by motto “everything always works out for me”. It may not look that way at the time. But it will eventually.

What’s going on or happening in your life right now is not the end, not the destination. It’s just part of the process. You got on the local train, not the express. This train makes lots of stops but eventually will take you where you’re supposed to be. Even you don’t know where that is going to be. You can only hope for something and yes, you can plan for it but know that there is a force much smarter than you operating the train you’re on.

Enjoy the ride. Get off at each stop and see the sights. You will get where you’re supposed to be.