The worst thing you can do is look for an easier way. Because you’re essentially telling yourself you don’t have what it takes to do the thing.
Developing an intentional gratitude practice over the last few months has fundamentally changed the way I experience life, allowing me to do things that at one point in my life I would have turned away from.
Case in point:
Helping take care of my mom in the wake of my father's unexpected death at the end of 2021.
I plan to write a tribute to my dad in a future post.
For now, I'm focusing on living one day at a time, intentionally and with a heap of thank yous.
I'm grateful for the things that come easily and I'm equally as grateful for the things that challenge me.
One effect of this shift is all the nonsense going on 24/7 doesn’t bother me. I don’t allow the collective (and often corrupted) narrative to take over what I’m thinking about, keeping my energy for what matters most to me.
It’s too easy anymore to get swept into the sewage that bombards our world every second of every day. For millions of people, being in that sewage flow is all they know.
It’s just as easy through gratitude to flow in a clear, unpolluted river where you control what you think about and hence, where you go. There are hazards and rapids, of course. It’s not a cakewalk.
But navigation isn’t nearly as difficult or emotionally exhausting when you show up with gratitude as your copilot.
I tell myself any time I’m running low on energy or patience — “Remember, you get to do this.”
Resets me every time.
Make it great!
