Daily Gratitude: This is great. Talk about tunnel vision. You’re staring at the same thing over and over all the while missing everything that’s going on all around you.

I also see this as another way to say you’re beating your head against the wall.

Here we have someone long ago advising you not to do what metaphysics calls “outlining “.

What is outlining?

Deciding what we want, and in what exact form, and in what exact timing.

The universe looks at that and laughs because we think we know what’s best. We don’t.

I had a perfect example. Since I was 4 I planned everything, focused on becoming a doctor. “Do this do that and in 1972 (I think. It was too long ago) I can hang out my shingle.” After all I know what is best for me, right?

Ha! The universe stuck its tongue out at me. And said “not so fast buddy”

So I got rejected. And there went all my carefully laid out plans.

My immature and inexperienced reaction at that time was anger pain and rejection of God. After all God told me I was going to be a doctor and here I was stonewalled.

If I knew what I know now I’d have said. “Oh I wonder what the universe has in store for me. I know it will be better Than what I had planned”. I would have just gone with the flow and listened for the message.

But my anger and indignation kept me from realizing that I really didn’t know what was best for me. I just kept staring at that same old worn out locked door.

I wouldn’t have been so miserable, and depressed. I should have stood back, took a deep breath, said thank you to the universe, and then looked around at all the doors that had opened.

And as with many doors, they may not be labeled, and you don’t know where they go, but you just have to be brave enough to explore what’s behind the doorway.

So much was opening up for me, but i couldn’t see any of the doors
because my perfect plan had been derailed. I could do nothing but stare at that darn door expecting that if I looked harshly enough it would open. Ha. Not going to happen.

Now I describe what I want carefully and in detail, but I always add “this or something better”.
I don’t give a specific time but add a phrase like “with or in divine timing “.

Try to think back to times in your life when you missed out on happiness because you were staring at that one door!

Daily Gratitude: OK so this is obviously telling me that I’m still working on becoming mature- even after 77 years. Ha ha.

Seriously, though, we do get better at enduring uncertainty or at least not fighting it. When we stop resisting (which is what not fighting it is), it’s easier to endure the unknown (which is the uncertain).

It’s just a habit forming process. As we are continually exposed to that uncertainty, and as we come out on the other side still alive, our brains begin to recognize that it’s not the end of the world. And that same brain also begins to develop new neural pathways for enduring each event.

We build strength by being exposed to uncertainty repeatedly. The more we examine what is happening and what has happened the more we can reassure our brains that we are safe despite the situation. As it sees the same process occur over and over, it stores the strength and as a result no longer interprets uncertainty as danger. That’s a pretty cool thing when the brain no longer thinks it has to go to full alert every single time.

Daily Gratitude: This gets proved over and over again throughout your life. Take a few minutes and look back over your experiences and see if you can find evidence of it.

As I’ve told you many times, the universe knows what you need and when you need it. It sends messages. The most important thing you can learn in life is to pay attention to the messages you receive. Often you need meditation to help you ask for the proper interpretation of the message.

Believe me, though, if you don’t “get it”, the universe won’t give up. You’ll continue to get messages until you do figure it out. And even though this may take some time, it will be when you’re ready to hear the answer.

If you review your life, you’ll get enough proof to help you build your faith in this concept. Any evidence you come up with on your own is always the most powerful.