Published by Gwen on 15 Jul 2008
One Thing You Can Always Do… Gratitude
I’ve talked about gratitude before and I’ll talk about it again. It’s one thing you can always do. If you’re looking to improve your life, your outlook or even someone else’s attitude toward you.
Yesterday, I said I was grateful for the life I live and asked if you were grateful for yours. Well, are you? Have you tried being grateful for your life?
Gratitude! Such a simple and yet effective tool. It is one that you can easily use everyday. All it takes is a moment to stop and say to yourself, “I am grateful.”
Make a list.
- I am grateful for a sunny day.
- I am grateful for the rain.
- I am grateful for (blank).
- I am grateful for (so and so).
You get the picture.
Or you can just look around you and exclaim your gratitude for what you see that maybe you didn’t notice before.
- I’m grateful for that tree.
- I’m grateful I made that traffic light.
- I’m grateful I didn’t get in a wreck.
- I’m grateful I got to see the sunset.
Again, you get the picture.
The power of gratitude is in recognizing that your life isn’t all doom and gloom. There are many things to be grateful for. Look around your life and see what you haven’t noticed lately. Recognize and be grateful for the good in your life or your challenges.
Just be grateful. I’ll bet you’ll have a different outlook on your life after a few days of consciously being grateful and really looking at what is good about your life. The strange thing is… You may even find the people around you responding to you in a different way. You will feel differently about your life.
If you’d like more details about gratitude you can go to an article that Bob wrote located on our site at: http://www.intentionalprosperity.com/gratitude.html
Take care and have a grateful day,
Gwen Baran