When I was first married, I called my mom A LOT with questions about cooking. I enjoy cooking, but in the beginning I didn’t have very much experience. And often our meals were not that great.

But after following recipes and occasionally having to substitute ingredients out of desperation, I found what worked and what didn’t.

Now I can smell food and know what spice it is missing. I know which ingredients go well together and can even create a whole delicious meal out of a whole bunch of nothing.

Wisdom increases our abundance because we know how to up-cycle, taking small bits of seemingly useless materials and creating something awesome!

We rely on others who have more experience than us, until we can rely on our own wisdom. Then sometimes we can even teach our mentors a thing or two.

Speaking of desperation, sometimes that state of being is perfect for us to gain wisdom. If we feel out of control, we may be more open to suggestions from an outside source. We cannot solve a problem using the same knowledge that was used to create it.

We never know when we will be bringing our wisdom of experience into a situation. One of our callers told of how she served a mission sharing the gospel and learned to recognize when the Holy Ghost was present and people were open to learning through the spirit. Her daughter was in a receptive mood and she, as a mom with the wisdom of experience, was able to have a beautiful teaching moment because she recognized that her daughter was open and receptive.

Wisdom of experience saves time. We make fewer mistakes and we are faster than when we are inexperienced. We have to be willing to do something badly to get to a point of doing it well.

Sometimes the wisdom of experience tells us that it would be better to hire someone else to do what we could do ourselves. I knew at my daughter’s wedding, although I was capable of preparing and serving the food myself, that I wanted to have a caterer handle all those details so I could give my full attention to my daughter and her new husband.

We are empowered to think on our feet when we have experienced many situations, so we don’t panic when something isn’t perfect. 

One of the greatest skills to develop is the skill of connecting our spirit with heaven, going to our highest source of knowledge and learning to recognize the answers that come. When you have skill, you always have the wisdom of experience.

New Ideas to Consider

• I have access to infinite wisdom
• I am willing to gain personal experience in order to have wisdom
• I rely on others’ wisdom as I am developing my own 
• I am wise 
• I have wisdom that others can rely on while they are learning

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I usually wake up after I have had ‘enough’ sleep. I remember just feeling like it was time to add children to our family after my husband and I had been married a couple of years. Our internal clocks are pretty accurate to let us know it’s time for something else.

The words “It’s Time” really resonated with me as I pondered on our subject of gratitude on our call this morning. There is an internal knowing when it’s time to make a change for the better.

External clocks can confirm what we already know. If I am hungry, I will immediately look at the clock to see if it’s time for lunch. Isn’t that interesting? That I would need to confirm what my internal clock already knows.

I think we have been trained to look for evidence before we act.

Our internal clock could actually be the most accurate messenger we have. Once an intention is set it might be interesting to just act when our internal clock says ‘It’s Time!”

New Ideas to Consider:

• I honor my internal clock
• I set the intention and allow my automatic alarm system to tell me when it’s time to move
• I have all that is needed inside me already, I don’t need outside confirmation or tangible evidence to proceed
• It’s time to be ME
• It’s time to act and I know God will provide the means for it’s completion

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Like energy attracts like energy.

I sat down at my desk this morning to send my writing coach a text, asking him to give me feedback on my book manuscript. (I just sent the final chapter to the editor last night!) I noticed I had a text and that it was from my writing coach! He and I were on the same wavelength.

Was his text just confirmation that I was right in thinking to text him? Or did I create the text by sending out energetic messages that my book is done and I would like feedback from people I trust before going to print? My training in the law of attraction tells me that my outward energy likely opened the way for the connection.

I can create oneness of mind by what I focus on.

Unity of mind and heart invites compassion. Unity invites Christ who unifies the whole earth as one Savior. Unity invites love.

Oneness can easily be achieved through service. One woman on our call told of how she offered to clean her son’s room with his permission, because she wanted it to be cleaned. Being willing to do something nice for another creates a space where oneness can happen.

Oneness within a partnership, a marriage, a team, a business creates synergy. As individuals, we are all valuable in different ways. Bringing all our strengths together is power.

We can each be one with God and Jesus Christ in our own unique way. Does that mean that God and Christ are different for each individual? Possibly. My belief is that as we become one with Christ and our Father in Heaven, we become one with everyone else on earth. God doesn’t change, we do. As we become more like them, we are more alike as individuals. We all want basically the same things anyway. We can easily relate to one another.

We are one, and we have a positive or negative effect on the whole based on what we give out. If we give out love and compassion, we invite wholeness. If we give out complaining, we create a crack in the wholeness.

Most important is that we create a oneness within ourselves. I can love me and invite others in to feel the wholeness within me. In this way we add to the whole, and create an even larger impact on the oneness of the human family.

New Ideas to Consider

• I am calm, patient and accepting
• I am one
• I am love
• I am whole
• I invite others in to magnify my wholeness

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I started out this morning being grateful for the patience of others. I have been working on my book “The Seven Gateways to Integrity in Life and Business” for about 3 years now.

I still remember the first night I announced that I was writing a book, I had 5 people pre-order the book just based on the description I gave them and my credibility for producing awesome content.

They are still waiting…patiently.

So that is what I thought my focus could be today, patient people. But it turned out to be gratitude for my own patience.

During the interim while I finish editing and publish my book, I don’t have to be stressed. I have a system of reminders in place so I won’t forget to reach out to those who are key players in finishing the project. I really don’t have to give any time at all to the book being finished at this point. I have given it over to others who are experts in their field.

During this time of patience, I am observing. I am observing myself and I am also observing what is happening right now in the calm of completion. Every moment has purpose. I can be ok and trust that what is happening right now is perfect even though I am not involved. And there is something I can do right now that is perfect for what’s next for me.

We often think of having to be patient with our kids, but what about the patience that our kids show for us? My kids have had to be extremely patient with me over the past 30 years since my husband and I stepped into parenthood.

When we are in a conversation with someone, it’s nice to be patient and wait our turn to talk. Also, sometimes someone may want to just vent, and it takes patience to sit and listen and not try to fix it for them.

Especially with regard to our interaction with others, I really felt that patience comes from a conscious desire to love. There is a moment when, if someone keeps telling the same victim story over and over, that patience may transition to tough love. A true friend will listen, to a point. Then when enough is enough, it’s ok to give your friend a little nudge. Not try to solve it for them, but help them see the pattern they are creating and invite them to change.

New Ideas to Consider

• I am patient with myself and others
• I am calm and observant in waiting
• I forgive me
• I love me
• I consciously choose to love people where they are
• I am patient and follow intuition to know when it is time to act
• I am compassionate with myself

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I have some new hopes and dreams for my business and for the reach of this Gratitude Call podcast. Setting goals is a bit like planting seeds.

This time of year as we are heading to the end of winter and into the first warm days of spring is a nice resting spot to just take an accounting of what we have been ruminating on for weeks or months during the winter stage of goal setting. 

We may have a list of goals. Now it is time to choose what we are going to plant, what we will put on our vision board.

Weeds happen regardless and sometimes plants die, so it’s funny that we think we will have a goal process that is devoid of limiting beliefs and trials. Silly really because all things revolve around the same physical and universal laws. 

Now is the time to shake off the old winter coat and open our arms to the sun. The heaviness and sluggishness of inactivity gives way to the activity of clearing and preparing the soil. Clear all old beliefs from past experience and enter spring with new anticipation of brand new experiences!

As part of the preparation, let’s find those weeds we don’t want to grow again this year, the old patterns and habits that seem to crop up when we least expect them and grow 3 feet tall overnight. There is a way to plant and cultivate so they will never be seen again.

I know some who are educated in the healing power of plants will even plant weeds! To them, they are useful. Choose what you want to harvest at the end of your growing season. Plant and prepare with the end in mind.

And speaking of harvesting, remember we always have more than we can use ourselves, so cultivate your relationships along the way, so you will have people you care about to share your bounteous harvest with. Sharing the seed crop or clippings from your abundant growth not only is a nice thing to do, it perpetuates abundance. As they plant what you give them in their garden plot, even more fruit is yielded. More to enjoy and more to share.

New Ideas to Consider

• There is always time for an easier and faster way
• I utilize and leverage all my resources
• I love free resources
• Sometimes I am the giver of abundance and sometimes I am the grateful receiver that allows me to create my own abundance
• I am abundantly blessed
• I am an important part of my community
• I am an important part of the abundance flow within my community
• I am part of the community that includes the whole world

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