Daily Gratitude: “It’s not what you look at that matters, It’s what you see.”

We all see things differently. You can experiment with this to prove it. We’ve talked about it before.

There’s a story about two little boys. They are both put in rooms with a pile of horse manure in the middle of the room.

When they checked on each boy this is what they found.

One boy was crying and pressed up tightly against a wall, as far away from the pile as possible. When asked what he was doing, he cried and said “Let me out of here. It’s just a pile of bad smelling poop. There’s nothing here.”

When they went to check on the other boy, they found him right in the middle of the pile digging away happily. When they asked him what he was doing, he said “look at this big pile. It’s wonderful.” “Why” they asked. “Because with this much poop there has to be a pony in there somewhere. I’m going to find it.”

Think on that.

Daily Gratitude: “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”

How much better can life be described? This is perfect. You know, we don’t have to be negatively affected by all the bad stuff in our lives.

When you focus on love, your vibration rises high. You feel good. The more you do it, the higher it goes. It can become a habit if we let it. How many people can you bestow your love on? Can you wake up every morning and make an intention to change your thoughts to love whenever they veer afar? Then hold yourself to that intention all day. At the end of the day, assess how you did.

Why assess? Because of the second part of this quote “guided by knowledge”. Find out what worked that day and what opportunities you missed. And then why were there opportunities missed. See what thoughts got in the way of giving love. What can you learn from it?

Next morning set the same intention but do so in light of the knowledge you gained in your review the night before.

Repeat each day.

Daily Gratitude: “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

This is different way to tell us to learn from our mistakes.

But it’s an important lesson and one I think takes us a long time to do. We tend to hide our heads in the sand and mourn whatever we’ve lost instead of sitting with the issue and evaluating what went wrong and what you can do differently in the future.

I Always say that it’s ok to have a pity party but that it should be defined and limited. Make it an hour, a day, or maybe a week and then stick to it.

Once the time is up, snap out of it, look at what happened and do it objectively. Don’t get stuck in any blame game and keep your fingers to yourself (no finger pointing). The point is to figure out how to keep it from happening again.

Analysis and then action are key here. Once you discover your responsibility- you know there has to be some responsibility on both sides. It may be small but it’s there – it’s time to decide what you want to change. Notice I didn’t say “need” to change. You may not need to change anything. But there may be some pattern of behavior you see and decide you could be better suited with a different outlook and attitude.

That’s growth. And that’s what we’re after.