Daily Gratitude: If you can let people in to see what’s deep within you, especially the things you feel are weaknesses, you are not only vulnerable but also extremely strong. You’re willing to risk being laughed at, criticized, and called all sorts of things. To do this means you care more about helping people (you think if you’re upfront about who you are, it might give others the courage to do so or at least inspire them not to give up). You care enough to brush off the bad mojo from others. You understand what’s important. Being superficial does not help anyone. Let people see your “weaknesses”, your faults, your errors and regrets. If it helps one person, it’s worth it!

Daily Gratitude: This is an interesting concept depending on how you look at it. You may wonder why you’d have to fight a battle more than once. That’s a logical question. But, it is only logical when we think we know all the answers. By that I mean that we may think we know what the lesson is (so “why do I have to keep repeating it” you wonder in frustration). In actuality, though, if you’re continuing to face the same issue, you might do better to sit back and say “ok universe…obviously I’ve been misinterpreting what I’m supposed to learn here. This time I’ll be more open so I can really see what it is I’m supposed to learn.” The universe is sneaky sometimes and it may be trying to get you to think about something from a completely different angle than you’ve ever thought about. It also may have given you tons of messages about this same thing and you haven’t listened before so now it’s got that big ole cast iron skillet and it’s going to bang you over the head with it so you get the message finally. This is what happened to me in 2017. I had been so so stubborn for so many years and never listened to any of the messages. So Mama Universe said “ok Terrie…you’re finally going to listen to your mama” and it sent me a message I couldn’t ignore. I’ve written about this before so I won’t bore hog again but needless to say I got the message then. It was painful though and had I just paid more attention in the previous years (and decades), and changed my ways, I could have ignored that battle. Thus, if you find yourself in the same situation over and over again, stop and say “what the heck am I missing”. Then sit back and listen for the answer. At that point and with that message you should be able to discern the truth. If not, go deeper next time.

Daily Gratitude: This goes along with the clarity through contrast concept. What that says is that you don’t usually know what you want until you find out what you don’t want. When something is taken away, then you realize its value and now you want it in your life. Learn to appreciate everything that makes your life easier – that you just have to turn a faucet and you’ve got water. See how you feel when you need to need to take a shower AND you discover they’ve turned off the water. I bet you start to appreciate running water more after that- until we become complacent again. Spend a lot of time practicing this. Maybe even make a list of everything in one room to start with. Just the fact that you noticed them even if it’s just to put them in a list. As with people, noticing and acknowledging goes a long way to helping make someone feel better and more worthy. This doesn’t take much effort at all.