Each day is a journey of the heart and mind. Will we make the right choices or the wrong ones? Will we choose to put others before ourselves? We live in a world that is not perfect. We can choose to complain and have a mindset that life is all about ourselves or we can strive to always look at our situation with other people involved. How our life affects them? Whether we are causing people to stumble or do better. The things we say and do affect others whether we like it or not! The first step to looking outside of ourselves, I believe, is to be grateful. I am learning to be grateful all the time. Over the last year I have learned that I must start by being grateful for even the least of things. Like this plant. It is dead, but it has a purpose and even in its death can be used for beauty, a peice of art. Start to adapt your attitude of graditude by finding something small to be grateful for.