How Gratitude Brought Me Abundance

Did your mother or father ever prompt you as a child by saying: “what do you saaay?” when given something? This is how I was taught to respond by saying “thank you.” My mother would say it in her softly lilting voice. It started a habit of saying “thank you” which led to an ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE. An attitude is more than just a habit, it’s a way of thinking that is so deeply ingrained that it is a part of our core values. Your attitudes are your outlook on life!

GRATITUDE is an integral component to the Law of Attraction and a driver of our abundance. For some people, the act of gratitude can be a catch-22! It can be a block in our path to abundance that we create, and only we can remove. “How can I be grateful when I am so miserable?” “I’m trying to feel grateful but it’s just not working!” If you have been saying these types of phrases, let me help you!

This is where the HABIT part of gratitude lies. Gratitude is a habit! It needs to be practiced every day at every possible opportunity; in fact, you should be a keen observer of opportunities to practice this habit of gratitude which will eventually (with enough practice) become an attitude of gratitude. You may not feel like saying it, but say it! Start the trend of creating this positive habit by finding something right now to say thank you for! Do it before you continue reading on, right NOW.

I said it too! I said “thank you” because yesterday I had the chance to find three dogs a good home. Believe me I had every chance to be an ungrateful miser in this situation because the dogs had been barking non-stop for the last 8 months! I had to take off work to drive them to their new home, work with others on the owner’s behalf to make this happen for at least a month before extraction, not to mention the cost to my health and sanity in this situation. There is much more to this story, but the root of my gratitude lies in the compassion I had for these dogs that were being neglected! Although there was a lot of negative I could have focused on in this situation, I AM FULL OF GRATITUDE! I am grateful that the dogs found loving homes and I can once again blog uninterrupted by canine cries for help!

Start by saying thank you in routine situations. If you don’t already say “thank you” in a restaurant, start by practicing there. When you get escorted to your table, say “thank you,” when they bring your water, say “thank you,” when you get your meal, your check, leave, etc., say “thank you.” Trust me, you’ll get better service too! You can do this in any interpersonal routine you encounter on a daily basis. This adds a level of validation because you will feel more comfortable seeing the direct results of your gratitude on the faces and in the actions of others!

Once you are the “thank you” guy or girl, move on to other avenues of your life. Use it in situations where your abundance increases, especially if it’s routine. On payday, just say “thank you,” paying your rent or mortgage, say “thank you for a place to live,” after the gym, say “thank you for an amazing workout,” enjoy your coffee and say “thank you, that was delicious!” I said a heartfelt “thank you” to my dog when I got home from rescuing those neglected three dogs! Every morning and evening say “thank you” to your spouse! <3

From situational HABITS like these you will cultivate an attitude of gratitude in no time! I see it as a life skill, something you should always maintain in your toolbox of life.

I’m going to add another level to this. Cultivating gratitude from a habit into an attitude is like health only being about food (it’s also about water and our cells) or weightlifting only being about the gym (it’s also about nutrition and rest).

Gratitude is also about being grounded. The more grounded we are, the more grateful we become. Why? Because being grounded is all about PERSPECTIVE. Being grounded is being completely comfortable with yourself in the NOW. You don’t have to have all of your goals completed or live in the fantastical end-state that’s represented by your vision board, all of that will come in due time. What is necessary is being the master of NOW. Be the master of NOW-Power.

Being grounded is being empowered, which is to say, being plugged into a power source. You can’t be empowered with out first being powered!!! My power source is God/the Universe! By staying connected to Him it creates a perspective of our own strengths and possibilities against a backdrop of the infinite! That is perspective baby! Whoohoo, I get a rush just thinking about it! You can achieve this grounded perspective by simple meditation and prayer!

When you are truly grateful you are open! Think about it in reverse. If you gave a child (not yours, but a neighbor’s or a niece or nephew) a treat and they sneered at you and threw it away, how likely would you do that again? If you switched a day off with a co-worker and then they wouldn’t let you switch when you asked them and didn’t even acknowledge what you did, how likely would you do that again? Etc., etc.

Being GRATEFUL comes from acknowledging a SOURCE. We’re not saying “thank you” to ourselves LOL. We’re saying “thank you” to God/the Universe for our abundance. I’ve achieved a great deal of abundance in my life via the simple vehicle of GRATITUDE. There’s a reason why it’s so ubiquitous out there as a part of the LOA principles, that’s because it works! Gratitude has brought me tons of abundance because every time I say “thank you,” the Universe smiles and wants to give me more! Go back to the scenario above: what if the same child smiled and exclaimed, “Wow! Thank you!” and gave you a big hug. Wouldn’t you want to experience that again and be ready to give that child something more? Be that child.

By the simple act of saying “thank you,” your ‘habit of gratitude’ will become an ‘attitude of gratitude’ that will snowball into abundance!

I hope this article has benefited you! Thank you for reading this article and being a part of NOW-Power!

 

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