Daily Gratitude: “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”

This is important but difficult. It’s so hard when everything seems so dark and dreary.

One of the best ways to accomplish this is to be prepared. How can you prepare for the down times?

By remembering “this, too, shall pass” and then proving it to yourself? How?

By reviewing your life. In as much detail as you can. Go back and find those times when you thought your world was going to end or never be the same. Then go to a point a year or so after and see how your life was then. If it was still yucky, keep going. Find a place when it wasn’t so bad. You did survive. What changed in your life? How did you feel about what had happened?

Then do it again with another event. Just keep doing it. Write these things down and keep them in a place you’ll remember.

So when things go “bad” in the future, go to your notebook and read through it. You can see that there is a light way down that tunnel. You just have to squint sometimes to see that light. But the list of things you’ve been through should help you know that even now “this, too, shall pass!”