In his Friday Mindset Mentor podcast last week, personal development coach Rob Dial focused on how life is amazing and how gratitude is an effective tool to turn one's mind to what is truly important in it. He cites a couple of examples, the first being how people tend to complain about being delayed during their airplane flights instead of stopping to think how amazing that it is traveling this way, especially considering how people used to get from one place to another over the span of our collective existence: imagine, you're actually sitting on a chair in the sky! The other example he gives was how people either take their smartphones for granted or regard it as a bad thing. Dial counters that a cell phone is just a piece of technology, neither good nor bad. Yet it has tremendous power as he lists the myriad uses available from it...including the ability to access a huge portion of humanity's knowledge. I suppose that the younger you are the less impressed you are by the digital technology that pervades our lives, just as only a few decades ago there were people whose idea of traveling to Europe or other continents was to get on a boat for weeks, instead of hours by jet that we're accustomed to. Staying within a state of gratitude and aware of the amazing things in our lives, Rob Dial concludes, makes us more readily able to confront challenging situations with a sense of proper perspective while keeping us in a more positive and constructive attitude. This all sounds totally self-evident to me, but I admit to getting caught up in the stress of day-to-day living and losing sight at times of the remarkable things we have around us today...
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