This is a journal to help me become more grateful for the things that I have so I do not have to continue with this life wasting time thinking about the things I am not grateful for.In this journal I will add excerpts of inspiration that hopefully might inspire others.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
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.
Friday, June 21, 2013
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.”
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