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Daily Gratitude

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26 Nov 2025 Life’s not a problem to be solved

Daily Gratitude: When things go in a different direction than you would like or you think they should (I avoided saying “wrong” because that’s an interpretation you put on something. You just may not understand it yet), instead of saying “why” start asking “what”

It shouldn’t be “why me?” or “why did this happen?”. Instead it should be “what am I supposed to learn from this?” And it also helps to ask “what gift is hidden within this?”

If you can start altering how you look at things, they will magically shift in your eyes. It’s not really magic, though. What you see outside of yourself is just a reflection of what’s inside of you and what you are thinking. And you know what? You are in control of what you think and you can change what you think. As you begin to do that changing, you will be surprised that you’re looking at things around you differently.

You can look at things as if they are all bad or mostly bad or maybe just somewhat bad. But what if you decided to try to see everything as good – or to find something good, no matter how tiny in what you’re seeing. Then focus on that tiny thing.

Let’s take a maybe gruesome example. You see a bad car accident. You could focus on the carnage; you could concentrate on the traffic back up; you could think about how lousy a safety rating that car has; you could be sad for the injured people. And so on.

How could you possibly find something good to focus on given that scenario. What if you concentrated on giving thanks for an exceptional first responder system – for the police, the fire rescue folks. The EMTs and paramedics, the people in the hospitals nearby, the modern day communications systems that have enabled quick response and cleanup. Why not concentrate and be grateful that it wasn’t you more or your family members.

Then ask yourself what lesson(s) am i being given? Maybe it’s a driving lesson, maybe it’s something you want to share with your children, maybe it’s that you should pay more attention to gratitude. Who knows. But I guarantee there’s a lesson.

“What is this experience trying to teach me?”

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Daily Hotline Message

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Message 318

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” Maya Angelou

This message goes out to and is about the birthday boy and growth instigator, Mr Aaron Havens

Why

Because if it weren’t for both of our hotlines I would have never met a man who totally personifies this sentence.

He has a company that does things no one else wants to do. I call it janitorial type stuff but I’m sure there’s a fancy name for it. But the fact that he is willing to take on all those yucky tasks AND do them well should tell you that he wants people to feel good – even if they don’t know that he’s the reason. It’s not a glamorous job and he has to work insane hours but he cares.

He also goes out of his way to make people feel good. He’s done that with me many times. Maybe his history as a pastor helps but you can’t fake this. His concern is genuine.

I imagine each of you has an Aaron in your life. Maybe more than one. From my perspective though, the world can’t handle more than one Aaron.

Anyway back to you. As the holidays have almost arrived and hopefully you have a word of the month, why not pick a person of the month. Or if you want you can make it your person or 2025.

This is the person who has influenced you the most and as a result most likely made your life better. Write about this person. Or at least think about ALL the ways they’ve impacted you and other people. What have you learned from them. What qualities do you wish to emulate? What virtues do they have? What have they done or accomplished? Why did you pick them over everyone else ?

Tell your friends and family about this person.

And finally, why not write them a letter telling them all this? Can you imagine how special their day would be if they got such a letter?

If you like this idea spread it around. And then consider doing a person each month. Who knows this could be the beginning of your own personal mastermind. Napoleon hill reminds us that the people in your mastermind don’t even have to be living. So this person or upcoming people could serve on your personal mastermind without them even knowing it.

The whole point is to focus on other people! Be thankful for the people in your life as well as the things in your life.

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Daily Gratitude

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Daily Gratitude: This is such an interesting concept. And one you need to think about quite a bit before you can just embrace it. But then it’s as if you slap yourself on the forehead and shout “of course.”

It gives you a better perspective on some of your pain. If you look at whatever you’re grieving or whatever is hurting you so much, take a deep breath and a few minutes to think about what information is coming from this experience and what it’s going to show you either as you’re enduring it or when it’s over. Think of labor. That pain must be unbearable. But look at the light that’s going to shine in your life after the pain.

Is there some hard time you’re going through right now that you can take a look at and realize the good that’s coming from it or at least how you can help other people (shine a light) when it’s over or even while you’re in the middle of it? You’ll be handing out wisdom and that’s a true gift.

Your light will shine.