gratitude

Gratitude is another great way to improve your life. "Don't let your gratitude be seasonal". It sounds almost silly, but let's think about it. During the holiday season, people are more giving, caring and happy. Why? We think about our loved ones, family and friends. We buy gifts for them. We write holiday card for them. We give them a call to see how they are doing. We become more considerate to even strangers. We smile more often. We laugh more often. We spend more time with people in general. Why can't we do that everyday!? Why does it have to be seasonal? Why can't your everyday life be about gratitude and love? The answer is simple, of course we can!

When life is simple, we enjoy things more. When we were little, we played with sand, water, paper and pens, or imaginary items, twigs... The imagination and the creativity of children are so amazing and they don't need fancy things. They are professional make-believer. When they decide that it's true, it IS true. They genuinely believe what they are doing. When they're playing house, they ARE playing house. When they are playing doctors, they ARE doctors and patients. When they are playing fire fighter, they ARE fire fighters.... As we grow older and start having more things, we start losing that ability. Rather say, we start to forget how to use the ability. We start using phones, computer, tablets..... and we become addicted. We let them take over our lives. Think about when we lose electricity.  We can still turn on the candles and talk to each other instead of watching TV forever without talking to each other. We can start telling each other stories like we used to do when we were kids. And it's such a great time! When we have less, we become creative, appreciative. Things become more meaningful. Seriously, we didn't have smartphones and tablets 15 years ago. We had to come up with something to entertain us!!!!

The moment you start appreciating what you have, you start seeing things differently. When you complain, all you see is what we don't like and what we don't have. When we are grateful, you start realizing more things to appreciate. And that's exactly how you attract positive outcomes. There'll always be people who'd die to have the life that you're complaining right now. They'd love to have that job that you hate because they don't have a job. They'd love to have the apartment you can't bare because they don't have a roof over their head. They'd love to have the clothes you're wearing that you said it's too boring and out-of-date because they've been wearing the same thing for a while.  They'd love to have the vision that you're taking for granted. They'd love to have those legs that you said too thick. They'd love to have this day you said it's the worst day because they died yesterday. As long as we can breathe, we'll ALWAYS have something to be grateful for. The gratitude is a mental approach. There's nothing we should be taking it granted for. Everything is amazing. Everything is a gift. Think about something that you can be grateful for today. And one more thing tomorrow. If you keep doing that for a week, that's already 7 things to be grateful for!!! Isn't that amazing!? Even the things you don't like, or people that annoy you, those can give you something to be grateful for. Be grateful that you learned not to be like them and for the things that we just learned.

Thank you,

Love.....