A Grateful Perspective Brings Happiness And Abundance

We Are All In Situations Of Our Own Choosing. Our Thinking Creates A Pathway To Success Or Failure. By Disclaiming Responsibility For Our Present, We Crush The Prospect Of An Incredible Future That Might Have Been Ours.

But Did You Know That During The Past Quarter Century, No Presidential Election Has Been Won By More Than Ten Million Ballots Cast? Yet Every Federal Election During The Same Time Period Had At Least One Hundred Million People Of Voting Age Who Did Not Bother To Vote!

When I Was 19 Years Old, Both Of My Parents Died In The Same Year; My Mom Of Cancer And My Dad In A Car Accident. Through The Next Two Or Three Years And A Series Of Bad Decisions - All My Own, I Might Add - I Ended Up Literally Homeless, Before That Was Even A Word. I Even Slept Occasionally Under A Pier On The Gulf Coast.

One Way To Define Wisdom Is The Ability To See, Into The Future, The Consequences Of Your Choices In The Present. That Ability Can Give You A Completely Different Perspective On What The Future Might Look Like.

We All Can Think Of At Least One Kid Who Had Great Parents, A Great Family, And An All-around Great Childhood...who Suddenly Went Crazy As Soon As He Left The House For College Or Adulthood. And Nobody Can Figure Out How Or Why It Happened!