Daily Gratitude: “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

Can you make a vow to remember this and say it to yourself every morning for, let’s say, a week?

Print it out on an index card and put it on your bathroom mirror. You can say it at night and in the morning when you brush your teeth.

New strength comes with sleep and rest. New thoughts also come with sleep and rest.

Prime yourself at night for the strength and the thoughts. Things often come to people in the middle of the night. Those can be your new thoughts. You also have more energy in the morning so it’s easier to change any negative or old thoughts to new ones.

You’ll need some reminders initially just as you do with anything new but after a while it will become second nature and your life will change.

Daily Gratitude: “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

This is a poet and an authors way of saying “control the controllables”.

It does absolutely no good to complain about something. It’s just words and bad use of energy. Why waste that energy.

Ask yourself:
1. is this a fact?
2. If so, can I do anything to change it?
3. If you can, then do it
4. If you can’t, then accept it and move on to something within your control. And….
5. Change your attitude

The easiest way to change an attitude is to think about something in an action way. What can you do right now to stop thinking about something you can’t do anything about? Can you use the “complaining” time to write a “how are you note” to a friend, or to outline a project you n might have?

Even if you’re sitting in traffic, there is something you can do to put your mind in another neural pathway that’s positive. It just takes desire and the steps to develop the habit.

When you start to complain or hear complaining, ask yourself “what else can I do (or think) right now.

Daily Gratitude: “Whoever pulls our chain becomes our master.”

This should also say “whatever” pulls our chain because so often we are tied to objects or things.

If we can become angry, upset, sad, depressed, or worried, we are not free. If we become happy or feel elevated because of what someone else says or does, we are not free either. Whoever can make us feel better or worse can pull our chain.

Next time something someone says or does makes your mood change, think of this. Either way, you don’t want to have your mood and well being dependent on someone else, do you?

Teach this to your kids and even your friends. Remind them of this when they’re feeling down because of what someone else says.