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There is a subtle mystery to the concept of being grateful. Those who are truly successful and live lives of lasting richness understand this mystery and apply it every day. In turn, they carry with them an overflowing heart and a feeling of deep, abiding happiness.

The path of gratitude is available to everyone that takes the time to find it. But what is gratitude?

Gratitude is defined as, ‘the quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful’. Perhaps though, Melodie Beattie describes it best in her words below:

‘Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns chaos into order, confusion into clarity and denial into acceptance,.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.’

To be truly grateful is a fundamental part of creating an amazing life. Everything in the world can begin and end with being thankful. It is a mindset that, when adopted, will keep your heart filled with happiness and your ‘cup half full’. There is a cost however to being grateful and that is the cost of your time.

Making time each day to reflect on the gifts in your life is the fastest way to create an abundance mindset.

The trick is to find something that you truly feel grateful for and then to revisit that feeling of gratitude each day. This in turn will give you the strength and confidence you need to overcome the obstacles between you and your goals.

For example, you may have a goal to fit into a certain size of pants or dress. A typical challenge around losing weight is negative self talk. You can use gratitude to combat negative self talk by first recognizing that you have been blessed with a body that despite the extra weight, is still keeping you strong.

Your body is just waiting for you to mentally and emotionally shift into a higher level of health and fitness. When you are ready, it will respond to your new commands and transform itself into the new image you hold for it. So, when you next start playing the ‘negative self talk’ tape see if you can replace it with words and feelings that reflect the deep sense of gratitude you have for your body.

As the challenges and realities of life take hold, gratitude can be a virtue to cling to in those moments of deepest sorrow. Everyone will at some time experience the heartache of death, illness or divorce.

It is how we choose to handle these difficult circumstances that will determine our ability to move through them.

Some consideration and thought concerning How to Make a Vision Board will help you achieve some incredible changes in a short period of time.

Take divorce as an example. Approximately 50% of the population will go through a divorce.Think about someone you know who is divorced or is trying to make a decision about leaving their partner.

Now think about how that person is choosing to handle the divorce. Are they bitter and angry? Are they lashing out at their partner?

Or, have they taken the high road and are quietly going about their business, advocating for themselves without hurting anyone around them. Have they chosen to be grateful for the time they were happy? Perhaps they have found the ability to be grateful for the children that came from the marriage. They may be grateful for the experience of learning more about themselves and for discovering what’s most important to them.

If you take the time to look deeply into something, you can usually discover one or two areas for which to be grateful. Clearly, finding gratitude isn’t always easy but it is a worthwhile endeavor.

At the most basic level, you can start with listing just two or three things every day for which you are grateful. Need help getting started?

How about:
1. Being able to take a deep breath
2. Being able to see the sun rise and set
2. Being able to learn and to make different choices

It takes only a moment of reflection to experience gratitude for things like the ability to hear, to touch, to give and receive hugs, a warm house, a safe home, a full stomach, pets, family and friends.

Just imagine how you’d feel if you didn’t have these blessings in your life!

Even on your most difficult days take just a few minutes to give thanks for the gifts in your life. In giving thanks you will be strengthening your sense of abundance.

This in turn will allow you to see more options for happiness and give you the awareness to make different choices.

A spirit of Gratitude is quite often an overlooked component to creating a life of greatness and happiness. Apply the mystery of Gratitude and you’ll find it turns the everyday aspects of life into experiences of richness and joy.

By: Otis Graham

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