Daily Gratitude: I don’t know about you, but this really hit home for me. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that there are only a few concepts in life but there are a million ways to hear those concept – just about “one way per individual listening”. I used to be annoyed when leaders kept repeating themselves. But now I know that it’s essential. Everyone learns differently and a leader’s job is to find a way to teach as many people as possible. What does that have to do with this message? It’s a thought, an idea, a concept we hear all throughout our lives whenever the word happiness enters the equation. For some reason, though, this way of explaining it hit me right between the eyes. Each day is like a bullet list of events, thoughts, and emotions. If we look at this list of bullets each night, we stand a better chance, perhaps, of going to bed happier. For example. My daily call/hotline has been worrying me lately but because I started it, the most miraculous thing has happened in my life. The universe brought this exceptional man into my world (or me into his) and we have fast become friends. The “happy” part of that started with me listening and responding to his daily calls and then vice versa. Soon we were having a great dialogue even though it sounds weird to call leaving voicemails for each other a dialogue. But you see- the fact that I could listen to his 3 minute call at 4 am was a bullet point. Then he would leave me a message in response to my call and that would be another bullet point. And on top of that I pretty much can count on the great Karin Ababenal to also leave me an uplifting response. In the space of about one hour I had at least 3 bullet points of happiness. I didn’t wait til the end of the day to “see” if I felt happy. I experienced those 3 wonderfully happy moments and that filled my heart with joy and love. How can this change in thinking help you?