Daily Gratitude: If you listen to my hotline, you’ll know that I end every call with “have a diamond day”! It comes from John Denver’s song “some days are diamond; some days are stone”.

Diamonds are created from massive amounts of pressure. Napoleon Hill shows us with this quote that pressure (uncertainty and adversity too) is what leads to the greatest breakthroughs. Every day should be a diamond day because we can choose what we we and how we interpret what we see. Remember that happiness is a choice.

Some day when you’re feeling as if things aren’t going the best, take some time to look over your past and see if this hasn’t been borne out.

You can do it when things are ok too so that you have reference for the future. It gives you something to look at and tell yourself you’ll get through it AND be better off for it.

When you realize you’ve “been there before” and have plenty of t-shirts, it will help you lower the degree of suffering (you can use the two arrow theory for that). Notice I didn’t say it would be gone but it should be less if your brain can believe it’s safe and this situation is temporary.