How do you process your life? Do you define your life as a reaction to outside influences or as a product of your creation? Wisdom is the result of one being able to take the most challenging of experiences and utilize them for greater growth, insight, or vision.  Once you can truly understand and acknowledge the relationship between cause and effect, you may distinguish between tribulation and opportunity.  You are a product of how you have processed your life experiences. 

Take a moment today to recall your most trying life experience.  Don't engage the fear or pain of this memory; simply examine it as if you were reading a line item on an outline.  How did you benefit from this experience?  Even if you simply walk away with greater clarity about what you DO NOT WANT, there is a gift in the experience.  Are you able to acknowledge it?  How does this experience relate to things that you are experiencing in your life right now?

Success or sabotage? Success is more easily acquired by those who learn to maneuver life's obstacles--not by avoiding them, but by learning to accept the challenge and the opportunity. How will what you have learned in your life to date help you live more effectively today?

Is this going to be an incredible day?  What are you going to do with the gift of this day? How Will you take the experience of yesterday and use it to create something even better today?