Daily Gratitude: As I was driving to Colorado over the last two days, I was practicing being in the present moment. That was amazing. As I gazed ahead and saw the road laid out for miles in front of me and noticed power/telephone lines up the mountains, thoughts about patience came to me. I thought about the people that laid these roads where there were rocks a dirt and who knows what. They had to clear the path first and then do all the important things required to lay hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of miles of road. We look at construction zones now and see how “easy” it is (seems) but it wasn’t like that when they had to start from scratch. I kept wondering how they erected all those miles of poles and wires up and down the mountains without any road access – they are just there. The lesson here is that we need to relook our expectations when dealing with goals. Things won’t happen overnight. It’s step by step and sometimes you have to redo things while getting oh so frustrated. But it’s a process and in order to have an excellent product at the end, you have to do it in a stepwise manner pioneering your way just as those laying our roads had to do.