Daily Gratitude: Emmet Fox talked about your mixing bowl, saying that you can expect whatever ingredients you put in that bowl will somehow be tasted in your finished dish. If for some reason you put kerosene in the mixing bowl, you can expect the finished item to taste like kerosene – not so pleasant no matter what else you put in there. The same applies to your thoughts. If you’re “almost” always positive about things, what does that mean? Is there sometimes kerosene in your thoughts? If so, things may not work out so well. Sure things can appear to be bad. But if you use my mantra “everything always works out for me”, you can just accept what happens knowing that the universe has some plan for you and even if that plan doesn’t seem to be the same as the one you laid out, it is most likely the better plan. My life has proved that. So, instead of trying to be Pollyanna, I simply proclaim that “everything always works out for me!” As such I don’t put any kerosene in my mixing bowl. Keep track of your thoughts and see which ones you want to filter out. Then go about that elimination process diligently.