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Daily Gratitude

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Daily Gratitude: This is what the Christmas spirit is all about. And every other day of the year too.

All you need to do is what some of the heart wrenching commercials to know the feeling. Don’t take this the wrong way because I love dogs as much as I love people but the two “ads” that always get to me are the ones for St Jude’s and the animal rescue ads.

To see the happy faces of little children who can laugh and love despite the horrific things happening to them and their bodies always brings tears to my eyes. No one should Have to endure that let alone a child.

And then there’s little helpless animals that have been neglected, abused or abandoned. No one has the right to be mean and hateful to another living creature. We can’t forget that.

What are you feeling your heart this week as you celebrate Christmas if you do? Are you thinking beyond yourself and your family?

Who can you help today?

I rarely ask for anyone to donate to anything. I’m not asking now but if you feel inclined it would be most appreciated…..Beverly is one of the women who stimulated my interest in becoming a death doula. She is a key member of the home for the dying that I was volunteering at (abode).

Her nephew just lost EVERYTHING in a fire. Can you take a minute during your celebration today and think of what that would look like (and feel like) if you lost everything. How alone and abandoned would you feel. To say nothing of the immense sensation of overwhelm.

If you feel inclined you can reach out and do something for this young man and his family. If you can’t donate, at least remember him as we head toward a new year. He will really be having a new year.

https://gofund.me/c59487b5b

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Daily Hotline Message

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Message 345

“Our perceptions determine, to an incredibly large degree, what we are and are not capable of. In many ways, they determine reality itself. When we believe in the obstacle more than in the goal, which will inevitably triumph?”

He said jobs learned early in life that reality was falsely hemmed in by rules and compromises that people had been taught as children

We don’t control reality but our perceptions do influence it.

How do we usually deal with an impossible deadline handed down from someone above us?

We complain. We get angry and sulk thinking “how could they? What’s the point ? Who do they think i am?

We look for a way out and feel sorry for ourselves

None of these things affect the objective reality of that deadline. Not in the way that pushing forward can.

Jobs refused to tolerate people who didn’t believe in their own abilities to succeed.

He pushed people through what others thought were hard limitations.

We can,like Steve Jobs, learn to reject the first judgments and the objections that spring out of them because those objections are almost always rooted in fear.

We’ve been taught to be realistic and to listen to feedback and to compromise.

What if the other party is wrong? What if they are too conservative?

What holds us back? The all too common impulse to complain, defer and give up. That’s what.

We all have the ability to break through these externally imposed limitations. If you’re given what seems to be an unfair task, see it as a test to see what you are made of.

What’s it going to hurt if you give it your best? What if you make it work? How special that will be.

And what if you dont succeed? So what? Keep trying. Find a different way.

After all Seneca said “a good person dyes events with his own color….and turns whatever happens to his own benefit”.

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Daily Gratitude: This is the time of year when all you hear about is the new goals people have for the upcoming year. I get pretty annoyed with all that sometimes. I’m not a New Year’s resolution type of person. But I do believe in the value of reflection. That’s why i seem to beat it to death here.

It’s mostly because I don’t think you can really be successful in the future without knowing what went well and what didn’t in your past endeavors.

I also firmly believe in resets. You don’t even have to come up with something new. Just ask yourself if you’re happy with how things are now. If the answer is yes, follow it up with are you happy in all aspects of your life. Maybe a reset in one small area will jumpstart the rest of your life and create changes that you didn’t Even know you could use.

Resets often are small. They may require just changing one thing. I’ll give you a reset example – one that has nothing to do with grand goals but it was a perfect example that popped up as soon as I decided to do today’s lesson on resets.

I have two mattresses for my van. One is about 6-8 inches wider than the other. It’s Al’s the more comfortable one. Since this race is going to be 6 days I knew I needed to use the more comfortable mattress so switched them out yesterday

But as I continued to load gear into the van I knew it was too wide. It didn’t take me long before I decided to put the smaller one back in. I wasn’t upset or frustrated as I’ve been in the past. It was just going with what was better.

That acceptance was different for me and I welcomed it even though I was surprised.

As I was looking for something else in the house my eyes landed on my thick yoga mat. This was not a given as it was buried under a bunch of stuff. But there it is was calling to me.

I found my measuring tape and it’s the exact size of the smaller mattress so I ended up putting the yoga mat under the mattress. That should give me more cushioning.

So what happened here? During the whole process I used logical thinking unclouded by emotion. Each step was feelings free. I emphasize that because it’s so out of character for me.

As a result my thinking and therefore my mind was uncluttered and there was space for the universe to hand me a solution. In the past there would have been no space for this new idea to come in. Plus I was able to embrace this as a unique answer. It was no longer black and white – one mattress over the other. New ideas were able to bounce around in my head.

This reset is simply a reflection of the reset that has occurred in my mind over the past 6 months.

Let me leave you with two quotes. One is the one I led off with. Here they are

“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”

And the other is:

“Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning… growing personal awareness leads to transformation in how a person lives.” – Idowu Koyenikan