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.”