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Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus said “Don’t spoil what you have by desiring what you don’t have. Because the things you have are the things once have hoped for.”

Gratitude is the essential part of doing life well. When we learn to be thankful for what we have it actually gets us focused on the things that matter in life, it gets us tapped into the source of good in our life.

I was in San Diego yesterday waiting for a car to pick me up for the airport. The car service never arrived and I was running late for the airport… I was frustrated so called a taxi. The taxi driver turned up and he was happy and amiable, wanting to help and wanting to have a conversation. So as I sat in the cab on the way to the airport, I started chatting with him, I asked him about his family and he told me that he was from Congo. His family was still stuck back in Africa and he was going on 10 years without his family. Although he had approval to bring them out to the States, he had not been able to do so because of the corruption and the war in his own country.

Ten years without your family!

You know I have a hard enough time being away from my family for 10 days and I can not even imagine what that would be like. All of a sudden the perspective of my own life kicked in. While I was frustrated and annoyed and wishing I had a better experience with my pick up for the airport, here was a man who had far more to complain about, yet he was happy, he was amiable, he is wanting to be positive about life…

It got me thinking about gratitude, how important it is to doing life well and tapping in to the source of good. When we are focused on good we make great choices and we can do more and be more in our live.

Find something to be grateful for in your life today and thank somebody who makes your day a little easier, do that and you’ll find you enjoy the present far more and spend less time wishing the future would arrive to change everything you are unhappy with.

I am Tarun Stevenson, reminding you that you can lead well no matter where you are in your life.

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