Daily Gratitude: It’s important to know how you are using your time. It doesn’t matter if others think you’re wasting time as long as you are aware of what you are doing and why AND are content with it. As with most things it’s about awareness. I have repeatedly reviewed how I’m using my time especially the evening time. Sometimes I’m not happy with it and sometimes I am. When I’m not happy then it’s up to me to change my routine. Because I know what I am doing, I am able to modify activities to make myself happy. Then when i find myself doing something else and I examine the current routine, I may decide I’m ok with goofing off at night. Things change. You are the one who can decide if your time is wasted or not. Don’t let others determine that.

Daily Gratitude: Read this a few times. Then it will sink in. You must do everything you can to be happy now. Not just so you can have a happy ending but because our primary goal in life should be to be happy at all times. Don’t wait to be happy. Don’t make it a contingency outcome meaning don’t fall into the trap of “I’ll be happy when __” and you can fill in the blank. “I lose x pounds”, “I have x amount of money”; “I have the house I want”; “I am married and have a family”; etc. That rarely works. Be happy you are have that wish and are on your way towards it (if you are). That is something to celebrate. Don’t wait. Be happy. That should be another verse to “Don’t worry. Be happy.” Make it a goal to be happy right now. Then each day figure out what you can do to
make yourself happy. At the end of the day, review how the day went and what made you happy. Do this every day and work toward your daily goal. Then you will have a happy ending.

Daily Gratitude: I have talked about this several times before but it’s one of those things that can’t be emphasized enough. Once you have your desire firmly planted in your mind and soul, and then let go of trying to control everything, going with the flow as they say, things will come to you. That’s what Goddard is saying here. He got out of his own way and was surprised that once he stopped trying to make things go “his way”, the opportunities began to fall into his space. I love this concept and it’s happened to me as well. Often it’s easier to let go when you’re paying attention to other things and you’re not trying to force alignment. I can tell you how many times my idea of what alignment is is not what it needed to be. You may say “well Terrie you wanted to be a doctor since you were 4 and then you got rejected twice. How can you say the opportunities arose”. Easy. 1) the delay in getting in allowed my epilepsy to manifest for the year before it was diagnosed. I most likely would have dropped out of medical school had I been in when I started having the symptoms. 2) it allowed me to find out about Osteopathy and apply there. This was the best thing that could have happened since it was the type of medicine I really wanted to practice although I didn’t know it. Also developing epilepsy forced me to give up my dream of being a neurosurgeon which was also the best thing that could happen (if you can have two best things) since I ended up influencing many more people in the career path I followed. Sorry this is so long but wanted to give you examples