Daily Gratitude: This should be good news to everyone. It means you can do something about your circumstances. The “bad” news is that you can do something about your circumstances. Why is that “bad” news? Because you have to accept the responsibility for that. You can’t continue to blame others or blame the world or blame anything. You have to realize that you can and should be able to change where you are in life and how you feel about it. It’s not easy. There isn’t a pill to take. You have to keep your eyes open and your brain aware 24 hours a day. You’re in the middle of a gigantic field. You see one path, a well worn path, right there in front of you. It feels cozy and comfortable- it should because you’ve traveled it so many times. In fact it’s the only path you’ve ever known. But you’ve realized you aren’t exactly happy and you wonder what’s on the other side of the field. After all it looks beautiful as best as you can see. You’d really like to see those trees and plants more closely. How are you going to do that? There’s no path. You guess you’ll have to make your own path. As you begin to make your way to the other side you note that it’s hard. There’s nothing plowed. You’re having to decide where to put your feet. It’s slow going because the weeds are high. Then it’s night time and you’re tired. You haven’t made it but a short way across the field. You head back knowing you can start again tomorrow. You get some rest and when tomorrow comes you decide to try again. This first part is a lot easier than yesterday because the grass has been stomped down and you can see a path beginning to form. You think “yeah I can do this”. A little bit later you come to the end of where you were yesterday. Now moving forward becomes hard again. But you’re encouraged by today’s progress. The same thing happens when you get tired and this process repeats itself until you get to the other side. Then when you look back, you see a new path. You can understand how to repeat this until you’ve seen all of the field and created all these new roads. You have grown!