WFMW- Holy Gratitude, Batman!
In the spirit of launching into a new year, rather than crawling under my 550 count Egyptian cotton sheets, closing my eyes and not emerging until March, I am sharing a tip that not only got us through some challenging times last year, but also produced some truly wonderful, downright powerful, results.
It’s simple, and I am sharing it here to help reinforce not only to the masses, but also myself, given the fear and doubt-ridden attitude that brought what was truly an epiphanous (WOW!) 2007 to a rather lack lustre close.
Are you ready? Here it is. Simply. Be grateful.
I know it’s a phrase that gets bandied about a lot these days and I don’t even really know how to say it (write it) without sounding terribly trite. Regardless, the bottom line is, as a person who has always fixated on the future… or more likely the past; what wasn’t right; what I didn’t have; what I figured I could never have; when I now sit and think… chop vegetables and think… walk the dog and think… do anything and truly consider what I have in this very moment; when I am truly engaged in what is happening now, enjoying what I am doing, the people around me, living in the moment… life is great. Off the charts.
Gratitude. Let me say it again. Gratitude. Wait… one more time. GRATITUDE!
What a great thing to keep in mind when starting a new year!
Yes I do agree GRATITUDE that is what I have almost everyday.
That is one of the qualities my hubby and I have decided we most want to instill in our daughters. I am tired of being around kids who don’t appreciate any of their blessings.
p.s. oh, how I miss Ren and Stimpy