Daily Gratitude: Happy Thanksgiving! Gratitude is a powerful force and I encourage you to express more of it in the coming year, not just one day. Perhaps that would be a good goal – daily expression of at least one thing you’re grateful for? Today I want to add more along the lines of putting positives in your life. It’s what you focus on that counts. Things may appear to be bad but as I’ve said so many times, there is always a seed of equivalent benefit in every adversity. I reiterate that you can develop this type of outlook by practicing finding the positives all around you every day. Look for them. Stuck in traffic? Look around you. What do you see? How do you interpret everything you’re seeing. A bit low on money? What are you learning from it? Is there someone you can ask for help? Is asking for help difficult for you? Then maybe your lesson is to learn how to ask. Take some time at the end of every day and look around you and just list all the positives. Make up your own games or challenges for you or your family trying to find a positive. You can write out a list of scenarios. Put them in a jar and your family can pick out a scenario and their task is to find as many positives as possible. The winner is the one with the most. It can be fun as well as habit forming. Whatever you do, just keep cranking out the positives.