Daily Gratitude: Do you just fold up and crumble when adversity comes roaring at you? Do you freeze standing on the tracks as a train comes barreling toward you? Or, perhaps, instead of crumbling, you look at what’s happened and start figuring out how you can use this obstacles to improve yourself and your situation. What are you learning from it? It may be as simple as just not reacting. I had the worst possible training walk the other day and I was so discouraged and disappointed. I was worried and started thinking that meant I wouldn’t be able to complete vol state this year. Then i stopped myself and reminded “me” that it was still the beginning of May and I had time to work it out. I also calmed down when I told myself that it was just one bad day. And that one bad day didn’t mean everything was bad. That’s a huge change for me – to get out of the all or nothing thinking. Now this realization doesn’t mean that I’ll just ignore what happened but it does mean I can put it in perspective and not waste so much time and energy worrying about it. I need to lay my foundation here, I.e. see if I can figure out all the possible reasons and then decide how to proceed to test my theories. It’s a much different way of looking at life but a much more productive one. We’ll see what happens to this foundation I’ve started to lay.