Daily Gratitude: “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

So many times we think we can just be in the movie theater of life, sitting in the audience, sipping our sofa, and munching on the buttery popcorn. Just observing, hardly ever absorbing, and certainly not “doing”. The movie ends, we get up and depart the theater. The bright sunlight blinds us to the lessons we just learned or should have learned. We go about our business as if the last two hours never happened.

How often do you sit and reflect on what’s happened in the last day, or week or month? I see. You’re too busy. OK. Too busy to learn from the lessons that the universe has bestowed upon you? Lessons that could change your life in such a positive way you can’t even imagine? Too busy for that?

We evolve, we grow, all based on lessons. We’re so used to having those lessons be handed to us on a silver platter by our parents or teachers that when those educators think it’s ok to let us go learn on our own, we don’t know how. We’ve been spoon fed so long that we don’t know what to do to extract lessons from life and then how to act upon those lessons.

You can begin by looking at your life, what has gone well and what hasn’t and then trying to figure out how you’d like to change to fix some of those things.

You’d be surprised at how well it will work …. If you just try it.