Are you giving thanks?

March 1st, 2010 by admin

“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.” ~ Anthony Robbins

This week we will concentrate on the most important attitude in manifesting the life you dream of. That attitude is the “Attitude of Gratitude.” Thanksgiving is not just for one day a year, it should be a daily affair.

I am sure you have noticed that our charitable nature really comes to the forefront around the holidays. Why is this? I will not try to answer that, but think about it. Why can we not be just as giving the rest of the year?

We are told that we should live in the now. Living in the now requires gratitude. Being grateful for what we have and for who we are. If we are not grateful we are probably thinking of the lack of tomorrow or our failures of yesterday.

The greatest gift we can give ourselves is the gift of an Attitude of Gratitude. If we do not possess such an attitude, it can be cultivated. You can simply train yourself to see the good that is continually around you.

When you wake in the morning you can be grateful just because you did wake up, some people did not. No matter how bad you think things are at any particular moment it could be worst. So you can be thankful that it is not.

There is always someone who is worst off than you and by recognizing this and not only feeling grateful but giving those less fortunate ones a little help will go a long way towards making your life more abundant.

Religions talk about being grateful for what you have as a way of getting more. You may have heard that your good deeds come back to you 10 fold. The problem we sometimes face is that those good deeds may not return to us from the source of the deeds. For this reason we will sometimes not be able to see all the good that is in our lives.

We are told we should tithe. Tithing does not have to be to a church or in money. We can tithe money or time to any worthwhile cause. Who decides what is worthwhile? You do.

Make it a habit to go to bed with a heart filled with gratitude and think of all you have to be thankful for upon waking. You may have to put some energy into it at the beginning, but if you do this everyday it will soon become habit.

Start a gratitude journal and list 10 things you are grateful for each evening. They don’t have to be grand things, it is the little things that make a different.

Cultivate a grateful heart and you will be given more.

TODAY’S TIP: Saying thank you to others not only makes them feel good but makes you feel good also. The object is to feel good.

Who have you thanked today?