It is hard to believe it, but today marks 6 years that daily attitude emails have been sent out.

Each and every one of those days has been a humbling experience.

Trying to enter into your life in a way that helps or serves you in some way reminds me each day of my lack of understanding and ability to do so.

It’s been difficult to (try to) remove my ego each day as I work to write something useful (or at least not terrible).

I realized at some point that it works best when it isn’t about me, it seems to work best when I just write what comes to mind and click send. Let you and God work out the rest.

I share a little of this not because I have it all figured out and you just need to do like I do. I share this because I have come to believe that taking the time to develop a small positive habit to try to help others can help you.

After six years, I can tell you that developing positive habits helps. It doesn’t solve all the problems. But it does make life better.

Disciplined effort to make the lives of others better makes your life better.

This isn’t a pitch for you to begin sending out emails every day, it’s a pitch for you think about some small way to do your own version (although if daily emails is where it is at for you, go for it).

Write a special note to the kids in their lunch boxes.

Send a nice text to a loved one each day.

Send something to our troops regularly.

Post something nice on one of your friends FaceBox page once a week.

I can tell you from experience that a little bit on a consistent basis adds up. It does make a difference. At the very least you become a better person.

Make it a great day.

Jake

PS – For those of you relatively new to the list, most of the old daily attitude emails live here: https://thedailyattitudeemail.com/