Daily Gratitude: How often do we wish things were easier and that there weren’t so many obstacles? Sure that would make life easier – at least for a time being. But have you ever taken the time to review your life, listing the things you’ve had to overcome (you can call them obstacles or adversifies or challenges or whatever you want to label them). Create a timeline of these things and go back to list what the “problem/trouble” was. Then take some time with each to see what it took to get past them. At this early point in the exercise you’re just looking at each event separately. When you’ve done this, now it’s time to look and see if any of the old ones were connected. Did one choice give you “power” or skills that you implemented later on with another obstacle? Look for and list trends in meeting these things head on. Do you see a pattern? This can be a pattern involving new skills or perhaps old escape mechanisms where you find new ways each time to run away. Don’t put yourself down if you identify any trends. Just decide what you need to do about. What skills do you know you have that have been honed over the years? List them on one side of a piece of paper and then list your escape tactics on the other. Now you get to choose which skills you want to use or work to improve. Let us know if this helps you spot things or trends and if it helped.