Look at your world! Look around you and realize how much to be thankful for. Stop and smell the roses!
At times I look outside of my world and it is ugly out there. TV and the Internet is always showing us the ugly big world.
At times I look outside of my world and it is ugly out there. TV and the Internet is always showing us the ugly big world.
Sometimes, I get sooooo absorbed by the negative forces and what is happening in our big world it makes me sad. Yes, I do get very upset, angry, sad, hurt, and very worried.
I am a mother and I am human. I think I am being a typical mother. Tell me if I am not. As a mother I am worried about what's happening with the outside big world. I am worried about our innocent children's future. Can I do something about it? The only thing I can do is, that I must look around me and realize how much to be thankful for. I can not change the negative forces in our big world.
Here are some steps in how to be thankful.
Look around you and pay attention to the people around you.
You will hear how everybody has something to worry or complain about. I know that pleanty of you out there focus on those who seem to have it all. Remember this, you never know what is going on inside of them. Ah, yes, they might look happy and worry free, but they might be unhappy as well. Do not look at others and think "I should have it like they do." Look around you and observe at those who aren't as fortunate as you are and take note of how blessed you are. Remember to always, count your blessings. Thank god for your blessings and pray for the unfortunate to have the same blessings that you have. If it helps, consider volunteering or start a relationship with someone who is not as fortunate and find small or gradual ways to help them.
Many of us need to practice acceptance.
People must stop dwelling on how things should be, what should of been, and what you don't have. Recognize what you do have--whether you like it or not. If you can accept it only you can change it for the better. Only you can take ownership what to keep or to change. Accept your life. Do not resign yourself to unhappiness. People must stop wasting time wishing for what we don't have.
Be proactive to the reactive and become a problem solver.
Make it a ritual by asking yourself how you can turn the negative into a positive. Notice, most successful people in life, and those who have the most to be grateful for, are also those who have endured tremendous trials, tribulations, and managed to have determination and turn it all around. They did not hesitate to take that reactive and turn it around to a proactive, they just did it. Do you take your lemons to make lemonade?
People must see hardship as a chance to develop ethos.
What ever hardship you are going through just sit back and imagine yourself looking back ten years from now and recounting your difficult circumstances, and being proud of how you handled it and worked through it. That is success!
Start a gratitude journal.
Here are some steps in how to be thankful.
Look around you and pay attention to the people around you.
You will hear how everybody has something to worry or complain about. I know that pleanty of you out there focus on those who seem to have it all. Remember this, you never know what is going on inside of them. Ah, yes, they might look happy and worry free, but they might be unhappy as well. Do not look at others and think "I should have it like they do." Look around you and observe at those who aren't as fortunate as you are and take note of how blessed you are. Remember to always, count your blessings. Thank god for your blessings and pray for the unfortunate to have the same blessings that you have. If it helps, consider volunteering or start a relationship with someone who is not as fortunate and find small or gradual ways to help them.
Many of us need to practice acceptance.
People must stop dwelling on how things should be, what should of been, and what you don't have. Recognize what you do have--whether you like it or not. If you can accept it only you can change it for the better. Only you can take ownership what to keep or to change. Accept your life. Do not resign yourself to unhappiness. People must stop wasting time wishing for what we don't have.
Be proactive to the reactive and become a problem solver.
Make it a ritual by asking yourself how you can turn the negative into a positive. Notice, most successful people in life, and those who have the most to be grateful for, are also those who have endured tremendous trials, tribulations, and managed to have determination and turn it all around. They did not hesitate to take that reactive and turn it around to a proactive, they just did it. Do you take your lemons to make lemonade?
People must see hardship as a chance to develop ethos.
What ever hardship you are going through just sit back and imagine yourself looking back ten years from now and recounting your difficult circumstances, and being proud of how you handled it and worked through it. That is success!
Start a gratitude journal.
Yes, Oprah talks about this. It is pretty simple. At the end of your each and every day, pick up your journal and write down five to seven things that have made you happy or appreciative that day. It does not mean to write down the big things. Remember the small things that count.
Here is an example for you to think about for your journal
1) Write down that funny joke or a song you like
2) having people who love you
3) nice weather
4) being thanked by a customer at work
5) your pet that gives you unconditional love
6) You woke up to see the sun rise before your eyes
7) thankful for your blessings that god has provided for you and your family
Be satisfied, happy, joy full, pleased, and delighted, for the small things. Stop and smell a rose. Sit back and listen to silence. Blow some bubbles. Take a hot bath. Read a book or magazine. Walk that dog that gives you unconditional love. Go to a park and get lost. Be goofy. Watch that funny movie that you did not have time for and have a good laugh.
Be satisfied, happy, joy full, pleased, and delighted, for the small things. Stop and smell a rose. Sit back and listen to silence. Blow some bubbles. Take a hot bath. Read a book or magazine. Walk that dog that gives you unconditional love. Go to a park and get lost. Be goofy. Watch that funny movie that you did not have time for and have a good laugh.
Remember, life's treasures are the small pleasures; give thanks for each small gift you receive!
