Have you ever been around or read about someone who is dying and you find yourself wanting to be a better person because of their positive outlook even though they are facing death?! Have you also noticed that as they are looking back on their life, they aren’t discussing all their material possessions, rather their experiences in life and the people that were apart of their life experience?! It’s the ‘Priceless’ moments they seem to remember. They reflect on their accomplishments with a goal, career or relationships, not the possessions that accomplishment brought them rather the joy, triumph and great feeling it brought them. They reminisce about the heartaches and struggles in life they overcame. They see how those moments of hardships helped to make them a better person, a stronger person and a more grateful person.

Although you may not be facing death this may be a time for us all to focus on what is ‘Priceless’ in our lives. There is no doubt we are experiencing economic hardships and struggles, some far worse than others, in the deepest struggles it is possible to find a way to look at what you do have as opposed to  what you have lost. Staying positive may be a tall order for you right now, but the alternative, being negative will only make you  feel worse, defeated, helpless and depressed. All those feelings don’t lead to action; they keep you frozen in the negative.

What is ‘Priceless’ in your life? Make a list. It could be your relationship with your husband, wife, children, friends, parents..etc..It could be that you are a survivor no matter what is thrown at you, you find a way to make it work; it could be your relationship with God and the peace it brings you in the midst of chaos. For each of us it will be different but it CAN’T be a material possession that stuff comes and goes the joy it brings is fleeting. You might say ‘but hey that gift a friend gave me really helped me to feel better.’ No I’d say it was the friend’s thoughtfulness and compassion that made you feel better not what they bought you. Now more than ever we need to stay in the positive and just like the dying we need to be aware of what is ‘Priceless’ in our lives, and that will help this to be A Wonderful Life.