Choosing an Attitude of Gratitude

"A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Adopting a gratitude attitude can do wonders for your family and for your personal relationships! One of the worst "diseases of attitude" is complaining. When you complain, you are not only focusing on what is wrong, you are also making sure everyone else around you is focusing on what is wrong too. The bad part about complaining is that you only add to whatever is wrong.

By shifting your thoughts to what is good in all problems -- you will now find out that every event is not on one side or another and it is your thoughts that make it a negative situations or not.

So, the next time you see that you are displeased in the way a problem was handled learn from the experience and determine if something can be done differently in the future. Stretch yourself and see how it would be if you were grateful that the problem turned out the way it did. See if you can think that you are "freed" from something that would be worse. Let yourself to feel gratitude towards the experience and all it brought you see if you could discover the present in it for you.

At the end of every day, I take some time to review my day and prepare for the next. Part of my review is feeling grateful for all of the blessings that came to me that day perhaps in the shape of a phone call I never expected from a vision team member; perhaps a string of book orders; or perhaps an email from someone who was touched by my newsletter. These things remind me about what I do and why I do it. By adjoining with the blessings that I am a part of, I get refueled for the next days agenda. May you feel the same way too!

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