Today I will be finishing the audio and the ebook version of my new book  
“The Seven Gateways – Your Map to Integrity in Life and Business.” I have a profound sense of gratitude for all the challenges and steps that were necessary to bring me to this point of completion.

I acknowledge the necessity of beginning at kindergarten level and progressing day by day, principle by principle. Michael on our call shared how we feel relief and can admire our work along the way as we reach certain mileposts that feel like completion. But we are not finished. There is another project to dive into or a new level to rise to.

One of our live participants, Mary is celebrating the road to completion. In fact, each day we can feel a sense of completion when we receive our inspired shortcut for the day in our Daily GPS and follow through to completion! 

There are many things that we can choose to bring to a close in completion – old hurts, old beliefs about our inadequacies, old choices that we feel produced negative results. At any point, when those old thoughts are no longer serving us, we can choose to call them ‘complete.’ 

The easiest way to do this is through gratitude. We can open our arms wide, and say ‘thank you’ to things that in the past we have judged as bad or wrong, When we do, it is complete, and we can close the book on that part of our lives, and begin writing a new story with new beliefs and new choices.

I Give Myself Permission to Be Complete

• I close the book on old choices and write my new story with new choices
• I am whole and complete
• I see that my choices to this point has been perfect.
• I am complete with the challenges of the past, I am ready for a new challenge!

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I am grateful for lessons of experience. And even more valuable is the wisdom that I have gained from the reproof of a mentor or even my husband when I have made choices that have created stress in our marriage.

A big factor in how we are shaped and the choices we make as children is how we are corrected or reproved. Reproof takes all forms as parents do their best with what they know.

Michael on our call today shared that in his experience, our Savior and our Father in Heaven, reprove with a gentle nudge to help us back on the path, and encouragement to do better. We have indeed read stories of Jesus when he did just that with the woman taken in adultery and others.

Reproof is a way to help us be in better alignment. In order for us to receive inspiration from God, we have to be on the same wavelength. When we come to the Lord with questions and requests, we need to first qualify ourselves to receive the answer. We do this by seeking daily to be more in alignment with God’s truth, the pure truths that all of us are subject to, and the truth that each of us in our individual purpose and mission that is only known to God, are subject to.

We prove ourselves by our actions, then we have the wonderful opportunity for reproof for mentors, God’s loving guidance, and others whom we trust as having our best interest at heart. After the reproof, we have another opportunity to prove ourselves with the wisdom gained. To be free to try, then receive correction, then try again is a gift that too often we neglect, or worse, rebel against.

And finally – focusing on eternity and the larger goal, helps more easily make course corrections. It seems impossible on the shorter scale, but in God’s perspective, anything is possible.

I Give Myself Permission to Be Gently Guided

• God knows best
• I am a willing and faithful steward
• I commit my will to be in alignment with God’s
• I receive guidance willingly
• I seek correction when I know it is needed
• I know in whom I trust for feedback

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This morning I received the final piece to a project that I have been ruminating with for the past week. I knew there was a piece missing, but I didn’t know what it was. It felt like an awakening when I saw what was missing!

The interesting part is that Today is the day that is perfect for me to have that final piece. If I had all the parts before today, moving forward with this project would have been a distraction from my book launch. But now, it is a necessity that I move forward and the timing is exactly right!

When we set a goal and look forward to its completion, it seems that we are more aware of those pieces as they come. We are awake and can watch for them as they float into our conscious mind as important to notice. When our physical needs like sleep and security are taken care of, we can take our focus off of our own survival, and put it on listening and watching for those critical moments that take us where we want to be.

When we take time to be present in our morning GPS and Gratitude practice, we become awake to the most important thing to focus on that day. Then when distractions come up as they always do throughout the day, having a record of what was discovered earlier that day can bring us back to center and help us stay on track.

Waking up is one thing, but staying up is the dedication to continue when we are faced with a choice. Drop the stubbornness. Stay awake and continue forward! 

I Give Myself Permission to Stay Awake

• I am awake to the pieces to watch for
• I am awake and I choose to stay awake and moving
• I am conscious of my obstacles and my shortcuts
• I am focused on the tasks that are most important and I disregard the rest

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For the FREE Daily GPS Guide and Journal Page, click here: https://bit.ly/daily-gps-2023

To find out more about getting your own Daily GPS 30-day Planner and a personal prayer pillow hand-made especially for you, with an online course to help you master the Daily GPS process in your own life, go to: https://mentoring.wylenebenson.com/30-days-to-your-inspired-life-sp

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I had no idea that today’s subject of gratitude would take the turn it did. Apparently there are many of us who desire effective communication with our children and our own effective communication with Him through divine tutoring. I hope this call today gives you what you need for those most critical connections of self and family.

This morning I wrote a letter to my daughter and was going to slip it under her door. However, when it was finished, I didn’t feel ‘right’ in my heart, so I waited.

I set the letter aside, and got on my knees.

New understanding washed over me as I stepped aside and invited God to show me the greatness within my daughter. I tore up the letter, and wrote a letter to myself instead, explaining the value and purpose that my daughter has in God’s larger purpose. My heart felt right.

This is my gift, to see people’s hearts and help them to live up to the best they can be. I am the perfect mother for my daughter. I believe we all are placed in the perfect circumstances for us to most likely get everything we need to eventually succeed. That may be difficult to see in the early stages, but just give God a chance to work his miracles.

One key to effective communication is listening – before we ask, listening to know what to ask for – and after we ask, listening to hear the answer.

Another key is sacrifice – sacrificing our own will for the will of a loving Father who knows each of us better than we could possibly know ourselves, and who knows what is needed to prepare for the future.

I Give Myself Permission to Listen

• I am open and listen from a space of nothingness
• I feel the truth within my heart
• I am endowed with power from on high
• My purpose supports and is in alignment with the Lord’s purpose
• I am preparing the way by following divine guidance
• It is vital to His purpose that I perform my purpose
• I am on the Lord’s errand
• I am continuously re-kindling my spiritual vitality

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To learn more about working more closely with Wylene Benson, contact her directly at this link: Contact Wylene

For the FREE Daily GPS Guide and Journal Page, click here: https://bit.ly/daily-gps-2023

To find out more about getting your own Daily GPS 30-day Planner and a personal prayer pillow hand-made especially for you, with an online course to help you master the Daily GPS process in your own life, go to: https://mentoring.wylenebenson.com/30-days-to-your-inspired-life-sp

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*I lost my blog with all the Daily Gratitude Call show notes. If you are interested in something I mention in the podcast, or if there is a link that is not working, please reach out to me at [email protected] to get updated information.

I feel meaningful connection with someone when I receive a gift knowing they had been listening. Yesterday, Mother’s Day, my three daughters all gave me something that expressed in their own way something they have heard me say or noticed what brought me joy in the past.

My oldest daughter and her husband brought one of my favorite games to play. My youngest daughter gave me a lotion that is one of my favorite scents. My middle daughter, hot glued a sprig of lilac to the front of a card she had made by hand and filled with words of genuine appreciation.

Sometimes the gifts or support we receive is hard to accept. I have multiple times received gifts of food that I don’t really eat, for example. But I feel love and genuine appreciation for that person, who may not understand me quite as well as my daughters do. They are expressing themselves in the best way they know in the moment.

We are none of us, perfect. However, we are all perfect right where we are with what we know in this moment. I feel genuine appreciation for the thoughtful gift of a purposeful gesture of the heart.

Mary, on our call noted that when genuine appreciation is expressed, she feels a love that is tangible that penetrates and fills the soul. There is no faking when this kind of heart to heart connection is established. Although each of us expresses appreciation differently, when it is sincere, all barriers on both sides are dissolved.

Tyrie, one of our live participants today, expressed that she feels more willing to receive genuine appreciation after she has expressed it. Giving, receiving and then paying gratitude forward, perpetuates genuine appreciation.

Finding and having genuine appreciation for our place in life right now is the catalyst that opens the way for new positive experiences and more things to be grateful for!

I Give Myself Permission to Give and Receive Genuine Appreciation

• I recognize and allow others to express their appreciation in a way that is authentic to them.
• I am genuinely grateful for the opportunity to serve and give
• I feel and receive genuine appreciation from God for the small and big ways I am His hands every day.
• I do what I do best because I and my gifts and talents
• I accept my contribution to the world
• I am genuinely grateful for who I am and what I have right now

Kathy, on the call today, shared a talk from October 2018 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints given by Joy D. Jones entitled “For Him”. click here to read or watch the talk.

Click Here for more info on living a life of gratitude.

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For the FREE Daily GPS Guide and Journal Page, click here: https://bit.ly/daily-gps-2023

To find out more about getting your own Daily GPS 30-day Planner and a personal prayer pillow hand-made especially for you, with an online course to help you master the Daily GPS process in your own life, go to: https://mentoring.wylenebenson.com/30-days-to-your-inspired-life-sp

Connect with me at wylenebenson.com or on Instagram, Youtube, and Linked In by searching for Wylene Benson

*I lost my blog with all the Daily Gratitude Call show notes. If you are interested in something I mention in the podcast, or if there is a link that is not working, please reach out to me at [email protected] to get updated information.