In less than two months I will be 67. I was born during a World War – another “war to end all wars”. I’ve lived through the Korean War, the Viet Nam War, entrenched fear of Communism, Middle East Wars, September 11th, jobs I hated, a very challenging marriage, teenagers with troubles – sometimes very big ones, financial losses, early stages of breast cancer and many other events both personal and world events. Everyone knows the current state of the world and its grave issues.

How can I experience all of this and still feel happy, joyous, grateful and optimistic with an inner knowing that we are all in for amazing wonders of planetary transformation? How can I have such a great life with so much expanding love of family, friends and complete strangers? How can I be seeing material success beginning to occur even within the current economic climate? Am I different than others? Am I more blessed? More special?

I think not. I think that on a personal level I have begun to understand how life works. My experience is that if I learn how to focus on what’s good, learn how to let go of the old negative tapes I’ve picked up from various places in my life, tell the truth of how I feel – at least to myself, if I keep expressing gratitude and know for sure what makes me happy, I not only create the life I want, I contribute to the positive vibrations on the planet and get to be a part of the solution.

I am no different than you. We are all one. We all effect each other by our very eyeblink. With all that said, I will tell you what I am grateful for this 15th day of November:

• I am grateful that my 75-year-old husband thinks I’m hot and just asked me to sit on his lap before he took off to teach a couple hundred inner city kids Physics and other sciences.
• I am grateful that I have 3 beautiful grandchildren, 4 wonderful kids with various amazing partners, step-children, friends, clients – love abounding!
• I am grateful I am my right weight and able to maintain it and love myself in the doing.
• I am grateful for our Wii Fit and that I am willing to use it quite often.
• I am grateful for my  iPhone and my new iMac.
• I am grateful for all the wonderful connections I’ve made all over the world by doing social networking.
• I am grateful for knowledge of how to feed my body and keep it healthy.
• I am grateful for all the wonderful teachers I’ve had including John Gray and Barbara deAngelis.
• I am grateful that I could go on and on and on.

Gratitude works to create the life of your dreams. What are you grateful for?