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.

Daily Gratitude: “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

This is different way to tell us to learn from our mistakes.

But it’s an important lesson and one I think takes us a long time to do. We tend to hide our heads in the sand and mourn whatever we’ve lost instead of sitting with the issue and evaluating what went wrong and what you can do differently in the future.

I Always say that it’s ok to have a pity party but that it should be defined and limited. Make it an hour, a day, or maybe a week and then stick to it.

Once the time is up, snap out of it, look at what happened and do it objectively. Don’t get stuck in any blame game and keep your fingers to yourself (no finger pointing). The point is to figure out how to keep it from happening again.

Analysis and then action are key here. Once you discover your responsibility- you know there has to be some responsibility on both sides. It may be small but it’s there – it’s time to decide what you want to change. Notice I didn’t say “need” to change. You may not need to change anything. But there may be some pattern of behavior you see and decide you could be better suited with a different outlook and attitude.

That’s growth. And that’s what we’re after.

Daily Gratitude: “Nothing is worth more than this day.”

Make today a special day. Don’t wait until you don’t have many left. After all, you don’t know how many there are.

This can seem like an ominous task, however, if you think you have to do something very special today…and then again tomorrow…and the next day too. You get the picture.

These quotes and admonitions aren’t saying that you need to find a cure for cancer every day or accomplish a major goal every day.

I think it means be kind, be happy and love others profusely every way. How much planning and effort do those things require? Not much right?

When you wake up ask yourself “how can I make today special”. Then act on the answer. It’s not a contest. It’s what makes you feel as good as you can.