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Today I would like to just talk to you about words of gratitude and creating a gratitude list. The other day, I was thinking back to when I first started really practicing gratitude. It was many years ago. I lived in a geographical location that I did not like at all. I was homesick a lot of the time. I was hearing this "gratitude" buzzword all over the place. I started paying attention to things I was reading and hearing about gratitude. I always considered myself a grateful person. I mean, I was raised in the Deep South where it is "thank you ma'am", "thank you sir", "thank you God for this food we are about to eat", "thank you Jesus for this day and please protect me as I sleep", etc. We Southerners pray for anything, at any time, always. I say that with a chuckle, but it is true.
I started realizing, as I was paying attention to how often I really said "thank you" and meant it over the day, that I was far from being truly grateful. I tended to lean more towards "Why does she have that and I don't?", "Why does he get all the breaks?", "What am I doing wrong?", etc.. So I started to look for things to be grateful foron purpose!! Findings words of gratitude when everything around you "seems" negative is not always easy. I know that first hand. As I started building my daily gratitude list, it became like a game I would play with myself. For example, on the way to the grocery store, I would challenge myself to find five things that I really and truly was thankful for. I had a rule that I would write these things down every day. I also made it a rule that I could not repeat the same thing. I had to find new things. I realized, as I got further into this self-challenge, that my attitude started to change. I started to feel happier, more joy, more content on a daily basis and those in my life started noticing as well. I found myself looking forward to writing down my gratitude list. All of those feelings put together caused me to look for more things to be grateful for as I went along. Now, it is habit and a JOY. I love saying "Thank You" and REALLY meaning it!! I love being able to come up with words of gratitude many times during the day.
What are YOU thankful for today? How many words of gratitude can you come up with right now? Yeah, I know the old standards such as "my health" and "my life", etc. Those are valid and very real and we should be grateful for them. Can you dig deeper? Look a little further? I know you can. Have fun with it and ALLOW the positive changes this will bring you. I'd love to hear how your life starts to evolve as you find your own words of gratitude, make your own gratitude list daily and really feel it in your core.
