Daily Gratitude: Things are chaotic for all of us right now. Uncertainty can be nightmarish especially for younger people.

One of our responsibilities in life is to take care of others. Often that part of our job description is forgotten. Now is the time to resurrect that skill.

Take an inventory of your friends (and family too). Play detective because very few people will come right out and admit that they are struggling. You’ll probably have to ask lots of questions to sort out what’s going on. But don’t make it an interrogation. Express concern and maybe even talk about how you feel about the turmoil we’re in.

If you can determine that your friend might be having a difficult time, the next step is to administer some “spiritual Tylenol”. What can you do to help reduce their discomfort? Can you visit or call more often? Have coffee or lunch on a scheduled basis? Text or message every day just checking in? Take them somewhere?

Ask them what you can do but phrase it as if it’s for both of you…because it is for both of you.

Remember older people and people without families too. There’s not much worse than being alone in uncertain times. Visits can help them be less lonely.

At the end of the day, check in with how your actions have made you feel….

Daily Gratitude: This is perfect. It’s the best way to guide your actions. It will govern how you will treat others.

But it’s important for you to take the time to think about how you’d like to be remembered. Maybe write out what you want on your headstone and write your obituary.

Then add more specifics so there’s a lot of detail.

Once you have that down, read it at least twice a day for a few months and then at least once a day.

This will implant your desired qualities in your mind. Then take that same detailed list and figure out what that means about how you should treat other people. What is it you should ne doing on a daily basis?

Are you going to be remembered for how well you scrolled through social media? Is that going to he the headline on your obituary- “expert doomscroller”?

Or are you spending time volunteering, writing, teaching (even if it’s your own kids), or helping just one person? Wouldn’t any of those give a better headline?

Do reviews at least on a weekly basis. How are you doing?

Daily Gratitude: If nothing else gets you to pay attention to your thoughts this should.

Feeling down and out. The more you let yourself wallow in this feeling, the harder it’s going to be to get out of it. If you realize you’re feeling more negative, use the list items you’ve made, those great positive memories you’ve had to help you get out of that mood. Focus on those good things and that will help you raise your vibration. That will lead you to more positive emotions and soon you will be able to be back up on top again. It’s a process so you have to be patient. And you have to prepare in the way we’ve talked about before – creating a success/accomplishment list and another list of events that have put you on a bit high. Use these lists to remind you how you felt so you can “reach” for a higher feeling/vibration on the emotional scale.

Do you feel you have to have a lot of money in order to be happy or to be “ok”. Once you think that, you’ve given power to money. Is that what you want? We need to have the power over money not let it have power over us.

Same for Bright shiny objects. The need to have something new becomes an obsession. Then it has power over you.

Think about your life and what you have lost power to at various times in your life.