Daily Gratitude: When this happens and you have to fight a battle again and again, take a few minutes to look and see if there’s a message there. Is there something you keep doing that gets you into this same situation repeatedly? What are you missing? Often the lesson keeps showing up because you haven’t learned what you’re supposed to learn. This may be hard to take but I think if you look at your past experiences, you’ll see how this has happened before. The sooner you accept this, the quicker you can change your life.

Daily Gratitude: This is a follow-on to yesterday’s post. What goes through your mind when you travel over a bumpy road? Something like “why can’t they keep the potholes filled up?” Or “when are they going to fix this?” Do we think about what it took to build that road in the first place or what it takes to do the repairs? Remember the last time you were slowed down by construction? How happy were you then? Never satisfied is where we are now. We had a tiny taste of what people define as “sacrifice” during the pandemic when all our favorite things weren’t always available. Same with the last power outage. We’re often so impatient and unappreciative of all that has gone before to get us to where we are now. Just think about not having indoor plumbing in the middle of winter or no phones at all. What if you had to somehow travel
Miles to get to the market to get your food supplies? Next time you start to grumble about anything, take a deep breath and be grateful for all that’s making your life easier.

Daily Gratitude: As I was driving to Colorado over the last two days, I was practicing being in the present moment. That was amazing. As I gazed ahead and saw the road laid out for miles in front of me and noticed power/telephone lines up the mountains, thoughts about patience came to me. I thought about the people that laid these roads where there were rocks a dirt and who knows what. They had to clear the path first and then do all the important things required to lay hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of miles of road. We look at construction zones now and see how “easy” it is (seems) but it wasn’t like that when they had to start from scratch. I kept wondering how they erected all those miles of poles and wires up and down the mountains without any road access – they are just there. The lesson here is that we need to relook our expectations when dealing with goals. Things won’t happen overnight. It’s step by step and sometimes you have to redo things while getting oh so frustrated. But it’s a process and in order to have an excellent product at the end, you have to do it in a stepwise manner pioneering your way just as those laying our roads had to do.