From the time we awake in the morning to the time we retire at night, we are busy doing things and thinking about things. What we do and think is generally catalogued "daily activity." and this repeated daily activity, long continued, comprises our human experience. The quality and character of our experience is the result of the way in which we habitually handle, mentally and physically, each aspect of the day's activity.
There are certain ways in which we can do things. We can do them well; we can do them poorly; or we can land somewhere in between the two. And the way in which we do them may have greater significance to us than we realize. If we are dissatisfied with our lot, if every joy is clouded with a sense of gloom and hopelessness, we had better pause and examine ourselves carefully—and honestly.
If we believe that we are getting less good than we really deserve, we should stop to analyze our thinking. When we are completely truthful with ourselves, we find that it is not an external circumstance or combination of circumstances that is causing us despair. It is that we are not demanding of ourselves what is required to meet those standards of excellence which bring healing and satisfaction.
