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Daily Gratitude: Have you ever taken stock of your life and what you are doing with it? Are you building souls or are you working on the “monuments”? That’s figurative of course but it’s an important concept.

Material things are important but helping to grow someone’s values is an even greater responsibility. It’s a responsibility not just to that person but to society too.

Whatever core beliefs and values you instill or foster in someone will be with that person forever. Therefore, those values and beliefs will affect so many other people – way beyond your reach.

Take some time to look at how you are running your life. What is important to you? How important are the people who work for and with you? How are you interacting with them? What are you offering them? What are your goals for them? In What direction do you want to see them grow?

Ask these and many more questions to determine where your focus is. Fix what needs to be fixed and grow as you want your colleagues and employees to grow.

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.Daily Gratitude: This is one of the most important concepts you can embrace these days. It’s hard to feel at peace when you look at the news and all that’s happening in our cities- things previously thought about when considering “other” countries.

All the uproar is screwing up our nervous systems. And most of us don’t even realize it. We may feel “uneasy”, whatever that means. Some may even identify the feeling as “anxiety”. No matter what label you impose on those feelings, it is the release of survival chemicals because your brain and its allies (at least something has allies) are preparing for war – that is how they interpret your environment if you let it rush past you untamed.

You’re probably thinking “But what the heck can I do?”.

The most important answer here is to find a way to calm your nervous system and do as we said in the Navy – send all those troops (the components of your nervous system) back to “shore duty”.

Find a way (breathing, meditation, yoga, walking, whatever) to calm your inner being.

You will be ineffective at anything until you do. It’s the old “put your oxygen mask on before you put them on your kids” theory.

I recently read a book that has me contemplating its main idea – that there is a difference between a thought and thinking and that thinking is what causes our negative thoughts.

There are parts of this I am not totally accepting right now but I am examining what goes on between my ears more closely now and there is a great degree of truth in his idea.

Anyway, the point is to stop and take some deep breaths when things seem to be going poorly. It will help until you can find another way to help calm you down (meditate when you have time for example).

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Daily Gratitude: We all need this advice, now more than ever. Being soft doesn’t mean being someone who can be bowled over easily. It means being kind, generous, calm and grateful.

It’s easy right now to feel anger and even hatred, judging others and how they behave. But that doesn’t do any good for us since we cannot do anything about it. Remember to control the controllables (control what is within your power to control) and don’t let the others stuff cause you anxiety and pain.

There are multiple opportunities around you to practice being soft. There are many people who need help and kindness. Almost everyone needs some of that, including you.

Set your intention each day proclaiming that you will be soft and kind that day.

Then follow through and review your actions each night.