Daily Gratitude: Everything you do is determined by your mind. The following is excepted from a Napoleon Hill book (“Patterns For Inhabiting Success”).

This is the process that your mind goes through when you simply ask “what shall I have to eat?”:

“First, you ask the question, and then your mind scans all the perceived possibilities regarding food.

Second, your mind crosses out all the options you will not entertain. If you’re an omnivore, you have unlimited possibilities. If you’re a carnivore, vegetarian, or vegan, you have fewer options but still plenty to keep you satisfied.

Third, all the available options come to you in the form of a mental picture involving touch, taste, and smell. Your mental picture may even contain the aroma the food has when it’s cooking or the noise when you begin eating.

Fourth, once you have made your selection as to what you want to eat, you do what is necessary to order or prepare it. Once you have eaten, you have fulfilled your goal… the process of creating your life is the same. Your mind guides you to the target.”

Think on this. Print it out. I did. Better yet, get (and read) the book.

Daily Gratitude: What great advice this is. If you spend a lot of time focusing on what you have lost, what good does it do?

It keeps you in the past. It keeps you negative. It keeps you in the scarcity mode. Loss equates to scarcity. That’s one place and mindset you don’t want to be at or in.

If you turn your thoughts and attention to what you have left and start being grateful and appreciative of it, you will have propelled yourself into prosperity/abundance mode. That’s where you want to be as much of your time as possible. The more you focus on prosperity (via gratitude and appreciation), the higher your vibrations. The higher your vibrations, the more you’ll attract good things into your life.

Develop a method to remind you to always stay focusing on what you have. You must nip it in the bud whenever your mind drifts back to thinking about what you’ve lost.

Daily Gratitude: Things are chaotic for all of us right now. Uncertainty can be nightmarish especially for younger people.

One of our responsibilities in life is to take care of others. Often that part of our job description is forgotten. Now is the time to resurrect that skill.

Take an inventory of your friends (and family too). Play detective because very few people will come right out and admit that they are struggling. You’ll probably have to ask lots of questions to sort out what’s going on. But don’t make it an interrogation. Express concern and maybe even talk about how you feel about the turmoil we’re in.

If you can determine that your friend might be having a difficult time, the next step is to administer some “spiritual Tylenol”. What can you do to help reduce their discomfort? Can you visit or call more often? Have coffee or lunch on a scheduled basis? Text or message every day just checking in? Take them somewhere?

Ask them what you can do but phrase it as if it’s for both of you…because it is for both of you.

Remember older people and people without families too. There’s not much worse than being alone in uncertain times. Visits can help them be less lonely.

At the end of the day, check in with how your actions have made you feel….