Daily Gratitude: Things get rough at times. That’s part of life.
How bad they really are is dependent on how you look at things. Are you seeing insurmountable obstacles? Or are you seeing little bumps in the road that you consider to be annoyances but not debilitating? Can you re-evaluate how you look at what’s in front of you. I know you remember the several hundred times I’ve cited William Shakespeare “nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so”. This Means you can adjust your perspective of something and can see it in whatever way you want
You can make it. Draw on your experience and remind yourself of times that have been bard. How did you handle them then ? How serious do those old “horrors” seem now? Probably not as bad as they did back then. See what you can glean from revisiting the old times and your solutions.
You can put out the fire you’re in and make it through to the other side. You really can do it!
Draw on your experience as you should do in all areas of your life.
Daily Gratitude: How could you disagree with this? What excellent components for a good life.
When you’re inspired by love, you seem to see only love and good things around you. Your actions toward everyone will be kind, generous and loving. There’s not much else we could ask for in life. A person who is moved by love is the one you want around you at all times.
When that same person is guided by knowledge and inspired by love, you’ve got the best combination in the world. Actions based on knowledge lead to wisdom and one who lives in wisdom and works with love is in the best possible position in life. You want to surround yourself with these kinds of people.
Daily Gratitude: I absolutely love this quote – as a writer and as a photographer. But also as just a human being
The basic concept applies to all of life.
In our hectic worlds we stay way too much on the periphery of situations. We rarely have or take the time to enter into them with any depth.
Can you take a deep breath right now and ask yourself if this may apply to you. Just an introspection, not a confession to the world.
I would bet that every single person on this call has a phone that can take pictures. I could be wrong, but….
Would you be willing to try an experiment? I think it would be fun. You can do it for a week or a couple of days or whatever you want. Just remember that if you think it would be fun or useful, you’ll need more than a day or two to get your brain used to it
What if you took at least one picture each day and preferably more so you could choose the right one later. This would be a picture of things that catch your attention. It could be sitting in traffic and the cars lined up in front of you – for instance, yesterday after a meeting I was comiong home and it was “rush hour time” AND there was a train so I was stopped for maybe 5 minutes – and you know as well as I do that that 5 minutes seemed like an hour. But I could have shot a picture of all the cars ahead and around me.
I could also have taken a picture of the 4 of us friends meeting.
Or my sitting and waiting at the ophthalmologists office
Or maybe you’d take a photo of your desk at work, your family at dinner, maybe your running gear if you’re a runner
Anything will do and as I said, the more the better.
Then, and this is the “tough” part – at the end of the day. Or, if you’re like me and much more of a morning person you could do it the next morning.
Pick one of the pictures you took and write about it. Use a notebook or your phone or your computer, it doesn’t matter.
Take a few minutes and look at it. Really look at it. Quickly jot down the FEELINGS you noticed when you looked at it. Can you tell if they were the same feelings you had when you took the picture. For example, if I had taken a picture of the cars backed up and looked at it today or last night, I wouldn’t have felt the same frustration. I probably would have looked at the differnent cars and then even thought about how grateful I am that I can still afford gas, can still drive and that I have a place to drive to. That would have led me to thinking about the meeting I had and how I love my friends and what a great idea we had come up with and how great it is to be a part of something new. And that would have taken me to thinking more aobut my friends and my purpose. You can see how this would flow
Being deeper into the things that happen to and around us enriches our lives so that we’re not just doomscrolling through our daily activities because with everyting on turbo we are living just like we’re viewing social media. Next, next, next….
