Daily Gratitude: This is so important. You’ve heard people talk about the “holy” people who go to church and act like they are so pious and then the rest of the week they are mean or just not kind. How often do your actions show how grateful you are for all you have? How can you use your blessings to help others? Can you take some time this week to figure that out? It’s not necessarily a daily thing although that would be great too. But if you think of some way you can use your talents or your things to help others at least once, think how much fuller your life will be. Then you might want to do it again and again.

Daily Gratitude: I bet you say thank you many times each day. But in how many of those do you smile and maybe say what you are actually thanking that person for? Thank you is powerful but how much more powerful would it be if you said “thank you for your excellent service” for wait people (not military that’s a whole other subject) or “thank you for your kindness” or “thank you for taking the time to help me”? Wouldn’t it fill your day up more if you thought of creative things to say to people? It might make your day and theirs happier.

Daily Gratitude: What a great concept for a daily routine! No matter what we do, there are always many people behind that one thing. Not just with fruit but as I was sitting in traffic on the way to one of my races I looked at all the different kinds and styles of the vehicles around me and thought about all the ideas and the people who had those ideas and then all the others who implemented them. Who gathered all the materials? Who sold everything? Who created the credit cards we used? And on and on. So when we complain about the price of things, we could ease that pain and complaint perhaps by thinking about the people way in that invisible background!