Daily Gratitude: This idea is behind why I don’t write a lot about chronic pain cures. Many people refuse to believe in the concept since it’s not medication or procedures or something someone else does TO you. It’s something you have to do and your success is not in the hands of others or kept from you by the environment. A person has to really understand and believe in the concept in order to do the work. I am not good at presenting the information well enough so people scoff at the ideas. It’s unfortunate but true. When you find yourself adamantly rejecting something, take a look at why you aren’t buying into it. Could it be that it’s just the way it’s being presented? If that’s possible, search for sites that talk about whatever it is and see if someone else has presented it in a way you can better understand. This checking out other places is an important technique in any aspect of your life.

Daily Gratitude: This is what I realized my view of life has been for many decades. My eyes always had this screen covering them. Seeing through a screen is hard and seeing anything clearly through it is next to impossible. You can do that but you have to adjust your focus. Even trying to take a picture through a chain link fence is not unmarried. The metal chains obscure the view. On a window screen the holes are even smaller and you have to step way back to alter your focus. You have to look beyond the crosshairs. Then your eyes can see more clearly, provided the glass (or screen) is not dirty. As you can see, there are many factors which impact your ability to see clearly. I had to work through the dirty windows, the narrow holes and my screwed up focus (inner past issues) before I could see the beauty of my life. I hope that makes sense. My primary intention was to help you be easy on yourself as you are cleaning your windows.

Daily Gratitude: How often do we do this? Let other people define who we are? Why do we do this? Because as a tribal organism I think we care too much about other people say or think. As such we ask for opinions all the time and then we abide by those opinions rather than analyzing all of them given our circumstances and then making our own decision. Often times we think we know what we want to do but then we hear someone tell us that what we think isn’t correct. So then we change it. This happened to me. I had a complete first draft of one of the books I have wanted to write for years. I signed up for a course on memoirs and from what I learned in it, I decided what I wrote sucked and I needed to start over. That was kind of heartbreaking and as you can imagine, I have yet to restart it. Ugh. Why did I listen. Another smart friend later said “maybe your book isn’t a memoir?” And in many ways she’s right. It’s about my experiences and wisdom obtained in my career but not specifically about me. So I have no idea what I am writing. It’s funny how listening to others destroyed the confidence I had while drafting it initially. Don’t let this happen to you! Your life is your script.