Daily Gratitude: This is kind of funny if you think about it. The conditions really always are impossible….or you wouldn’t even be thinking about it. You’d have already done whatever it is you’re trying to rationalize away.

Don’t wait til you lose weight to start interacting with others more. Don’t wait until you’re rich before you have fun. Don’t wait.

Find a way to do what you want to do now. Figure out what you’re meant to do, even if it’s just what you’re meant to do TODAY and not for the rest of the world. Maybe you’re meant to have coffee with someone who’s lonely and had a recent loss. That’s not curing cancer for the world but it’s being Thomas Edison in that person’s life. Your brought light into their life. And with that light came hope.

What are you meant to do today and who are you going to be Thomas Edison for today?

Daily Gratitude: We all need to follow this advice. Nature is the best model for patience. But as we know nature can also be savage and harsh. In other words “forceful”. There are times in our lives when we have to be forceful too. But most of the time patience and quietude provide the best payoffs.

Nature can appear “quick” though. I love to watch the flowers on my daily walks. One day there’s a bud and the next day it’s in full bloom and one day later it’s gone. It’s tempting to think that’s such a waste. But that flower fulfilled its purpose in the time it had – how many of us can say the same thing? The thing we tend to forget is the period of time where that flower is growing and being nurtured where we don’t see it. The song “The Rose” highlights that beautifully.

“When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun’s love
In the spring becomes the rose”

Nurture the rose within you and then patience will appear.

Happy New Year!!

Daily Gratitude: It’s funny how the universe always knows what to put in front of you. I’m experiencing this now. I am not happy about something going on in my life. And although it’s painful, it’s also very trivial and I shouldn’t care. I’ll never change the circumstances nor should I want to because that’s not really in my control.

But I can change my response. I also know that it’s a part deep within and very young that’s reacting this way. Therefore it’s good that this situation showed up because there’s a little child or baby in there that needs work. You can scoff all you want at IFS but it has changed me completely in just a few years.

Remember that you can’t change other people. But you can change yourself. Maybe you have to pull away from a person or series of events. Perhaps it’s time to move on. But just maybe it’s one thing that needs a tweak.

How are you feeling about your world- notice I said YOUR world not THE world