The Daily G.I.F.T. from The GratiDude

Looking for your glasses without your glasses is a conundrum of Mr. Magoo proportions.

It’s inevitable that if you have a prescription for glasses, whether they’re reading glasses or corrective lenses glasses

, you will misplace them.

It just happens, especially if you take your glasses off and set them down in a place that isn’t your go-to spot for your glasses.  Your spot for your Glasses is critical as you need them there, when you are blind and getting ready to receive the gift of sight, you know you can grab them. ANYTIME. This is way more critical than your go-to spot for your car keys or something else and I’ll explain why.

When you stray from your typical spot that you leave your glasses and you can’t find them, now you’re in the predicament of looking for something without the thing that you use to look for stuff: your glasses.  

In other words, looking for your glasses when you don’t have your glasses is a lot like looking for calm and mindfulness when you don’t have it.

It’s really difficult to know where to even begin to look.

I can relate with that.

This thought struck me yesterday when I was walking in my Barrio, as somebody was kind enough to position a pair of eyeglasses that obviously had become detached from their owner. Whatever kind soul found these glasses put them up on a prominent utility box so that they could be seen clearly.

Or, I should say they could be seen clearly by people wearing their glasses, however probably not seen clearly by the person missing those glasses Because he couldn’t see up to the utility box because he didn’t have his glasses. 

In moments like this, we could use help, especially from people with great vision or perhaps folks maybe that went through Lasik surgery and have Eagle eyes now.  Those are the folks we need to help us look for our glasses that we misplaced!

This is just like turning to coaches to help you when you need help in your personal life or for your business aspirations, or seeking therapy when you have emotional or other psychological and mental issues to work through, it is great to get help from the folks that can help us.

The Coaching and Development Market will double in size over the next 10-15 years. Massive growth.

For me, I’d accumulated a lot of skills and a lot of knowledge however I’ve never built a professional Coaching program(or Happiness Sherpa Program). For me to get there faster and be able to help people as quickly as possible I asked for help from some of the world leaders in Professional Coaching.

I needed help finding my Glasses.

They explained to me that the growth of the coaching business is tied to the fact that more people are striving for personal improvement and seeking sources of happiness that they can control versus external circumstances and financial rewards.  This trend was exacerbated during Covid when all patterns were interrupted, and a time of reflection was provided for everyone through the form of a pandemic.

I’m so fortunate that I’ve had the opportunity over the last few months to work with Kent, Dave, Rob, and Abe, as we finalize all of my program detail and get ready to launch the website by the beginning of June.

I would still be wandering around the neighborhood looking for my glasses, not knowing they were sitting on top of that utility box if it wasn’t for my willingness to ask for help and for the universe and God always delivering and conspiring for my happiness and well-being.

You gotta ask for help!!

For many of us, however, the challenges getting to a point of stillness so that we know what our true calling is, or what we could be doing that would be the most benefit to others, and or provide us the most joy and happiness and fulfillment in our lifetime.  In other words, we don’t know what we need help with all the time. That’s ok, meditation and cultivating calm help with achieving your self knowledge you need.

What a gratitude practice does is sharpens your focus around both the things that are most important to you and help you embrace a comfort level to explore all of the thoughts and feelings in your subconscious.  Please keep in mind that 95% of your activity happens in your subconscious so cultivating an awareness of this space is simply embracing the totality and the majority of your thoughts and feelings.

Whether your journaling the things that you appreciate(Gratitude Journal), focus in on especially the feelings that come out of interactions and relationships. This way you can really hone in on both what drives you and what gives you personal satisfaction and a smile on your face when you go to bed at night.

For me, I realize that business goals and deals and financial achievements within a business environment are fun, but they don’t provide the same satisfaction as helping people unwind the lies that they’ve told themselves or to simply provide support for people to pursue their own personal greatness.  

I get much more joy and satisfaction out of helping others than I do playing games and business and achieving on that level. I know me and I know what makes me happy now and I’m building my life around this reality.

I keep my glasses in the exact same spot next to a little fountain in my kitchen without fail.

When I am five or 10 minutes late to a ZOOM meeting, it will probably be because I left my glasses somewhere other than this spot by the fountain in the kitchen. I will be all over the house, I’m wandering around like Mr. Magoo, not realizing they’re sitting on top of the utility box out in front of my house the entire time, or better yet, on top of MY HEAD!!  

It’s tough to find your glasses when you don’t have your glasses on.

However, if you can get to your phone and text a good friend and simply say, “I love you and need some help”, I bet they would respond that they’ll come help you find your glasses and they’ll rub your tummy afterwards. That’s what Friends are for! Just thank them profusely and make sure they know that you appreciate them with your Attitude of Gratitude.

EVERY DAY:

Love

and

Gratitude

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