Daily Gratitude: Everything you need and want really is inside yourself. Think back to when you were a child. Remember your dreams? What happened to or with those dreams? Were you the type of kid/person who let nothing stand in your way? If so, that’s what this quote is all about. When I was4, God told me I was going to be a doctor. After that, it was simply a part of my being. It was a sculpture being created. A bit here, a bit there. All the pieces eventually fell into place and I finally became a doctor. Then it needed polishing and life experience provided that. My “insides” are still working on finalizing that piece- because the dream to help people is still within. I’m not practicing as a doctor any longer and over the past 5 years (since retirement), the sculpture has needed some scrubbing and dusting but as long as it wasn’t buried in the rubble of a hoarding mind, it was able to shine again. Along came the opportunity to become a doula and help people in a different way. If you think there’s no dream or attainable desire within you, think again. Once you identify that desire and hold it firmly in your thoughts, crowding out the negative parts telling you it’s ridiculous, you are in the process of allowing your sculpture to shine – either again or for the first time. It’s up to you what you do now – let the dust read cumulate OR put it up on a pedestal for display. Which course of action are you going to take?