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All of us have bad days; you know the kind. You just feel like what's going wrong. I think we have each found ourselves thinking, "I am just ready with this bad day to be finished." Well, I found myself thinking that really thought the other day. That train of thought stopped fairly early when I assessed my own e-mails.

When I got to an email a friend of mine my own evaluation of the afternoon and my outlook on life changed. This email contained a link to an online video about a young guy, my age, that was born without arms or legs. Nick Vujicic resides "A Life Without Limbs," as he refers to it.

Anything you or I could do with all our arms or legs, Nick can do with a small, frail, chicken-leg-looking body part that comes out of the hip. It's not a leg, it actually looks like a chicken leg, brief and type of wiry. He uses that body part to do things like reverse a phone up from the ground to his ear or kick a ball. It's incredible. Needless to say, once I watched this video I had to settle back and ask myself in my own life is really all that bad. There is no way I could go about my daily tasks in the identical manner Nick does.

If I had been in his shoes, I cannot even say I could keep a positive outlook on life, but he manages to. And do you know anything? That gives me strength to be grateful for single moment of every day and it gives me more incentive to give thanks to all that I have. I think if you stop and look around, you will discover that your life may really be a whole lot worse. Sure, maybe it may be better too, but we're currently trying to focus on the positive here. I know I am grateful for my health and strength, the strength I've emotionally and internally. I have to be grateful for and I try to express it to people who deserve credit, whether it's a friend, a stranger or a celestial figure. Say "Thank you." It feels good for everyone involved.

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