Continued from yesterday,

I have found out how much a waste of time it is to focus on all the bad stuff going on in my life the whole while there is good stuff happening. I have figured out that there is a whole world of research devoted to the state of being grateful. My whole life has been spent up until now pretty much wanting what others have and not being satisfied with what I have.

         I like to wear casual clothes no matter how old they are as long as they are clean and fit comfortably. It should not matter

06/22/13

Today I am grateful for the fact that I have this opportunity to create this blog and that I have a computer to do it. Today I walked outside and was at a very busy intersection and had noticed a lot of people outside holding signs in the street intersections “Hungry any help please?” “Will work for food.”I also noticed a few people very intoxicated sleeping in the bushes. The reason I am pointing this out is not to judge but to remember this was me not to long ago. Since those horrific times I have worked and have received many blessings to get to be where I am today for this I am grateful and thankful.

With the help of others, commitment, courage and a lot of perseverance getting off the streets is possible. In most of our lives we will come across roadblocks and obstacles by staying strong and not giving up they can be overcome.  For me making sacrifices and changing my daily routines played a major role in my recovery.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z459G8EqNlE

06/21/13

The State of Being Grateful

This is my first journal on teaching myself to be grateful for what I have. I often find myself in a slump of misery because I feel that everything that could go wrong is going wrong. I try and try again and to no avail find nothing but a lousy experience. I blame everyone else for what is happening to me instead of being thankful like I should be. In my journal I will sometimes add some excerpts of inspiration. Like this one from a website by Adam Khoo about success.

"I once had a participant who attended my ‘Patterns of Excellence’ programme who was going through a really tough time in his life. He had recently been declared a bankrupt (he could not pay the debts from his failed business) and his marriage was in the final stages of divorce. He was potentially losing his kids and even his house. Nothing in his life seemed to be working. He felt as if the whole world was going against him.

“Gratitude is for people who already have a lot and want to achieve even more. What can I possibly be grateful for, with everything going downhill in my life?,” he said. At times, when we all go through rough patches, it may seem impossible to find something to be grateful for.

However, I believe that no matter how unfair or hopeless things may seem at times, there are many blessings that we can choose to focus on. Focusing on our blessings changes our energy from negative to positive and it is the first step we have to take if we want to turn the events in our life around. When we focus on what we have as compared to what we do not have, we draw the strength and the inspiration to turn our challenges into opportunities."

For me I have found out that while I am sitting down often at the bus bench I feel the dread of despair and anger the way that my life is going. I have found a tool for escaping this I have learned to enjoy the second, the instance I am currently in. “The weather is good, I have a place to lay my head why am I in such a hurry anyway. I have a bus pass.”