Living With an Attitude of Gratitude

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4 years ago

Living With an Attitude of Gratitude

It’s a few days before we celebrate the New Year. With our “bellies” full and spending happy moments with our loved ones we start thinking about our goals for the coming New Year.

I know for myself that I find that I love to sit in my meditation chair and ponder what has my year been like. The ups and downs along my journey. The most amazing friends, and business people from all over the world that have played some instrumental role in my life. It has been a year of losing precious friends due to incurable diseases, my country in such turmoil, war and the list goes on.

Yet as I sit in my chair and write my article, within me there is the will and life force to continue and embrace my life with all the challenges and opportunities. The excitement of knowing that and appreciating what the challenges bring for my own personal growth.

I am not a religious person, and have been fortunate enough to travel to beautiful, ancient ashrams, mosques and divine churches and cathedrals. Stepping inside these scared places of God you are overwhelmed with such peace, love and gratitude. And it’s not only in these sacred places that you find inner peace. A few years ago, I was fortunate to travel to Peru and spend a week in the Amazon. Here I found my sanctuary. It is the most magical place to see how God’s hands and Mother Gaia are at work and in synchronicity with the trees, animals and indigenous people. There is no church or cathedral, but here being in this heavenly place, walking in the forest appreciating her beauty I realized that there is a Divine Maker. Swimming in the tannin stained clean river with the pink dolphins and piranhas and eating what the forest and river has to offer. Also experiencing a visit to be blessed by the shaman makes life and all her gifts so much more enjoyable and what better way to be thankful than being happy and ‘drenched in gratitude’

Many people ask, what is gratitude? Is it something you give? Is it an emotion personality trait? Is it something we learn or is it within us as divine beings?

For me, gratitude is a feeling of happiness, peace, and love, that comes from appreciation. Going to your spiritual sanctuary praying be it a church or just sitting quietly somewhere writing down in your own words for what and why you are so grateful, is a way to say thank you and express your gratitude.

There are no hard and fast rules to being grateful. Being mindful of what you think, say and do is a good start. Ask yourself, does it warrant your action or reaction and would you like to be treated if you were standing in the other person`s shoes.

This does not mean that you should take any abuse by not reacting. It is how you respond and the consequences thereof.

Have you ever just smiled at a stranger walking past you, given a compliment to a stranger out of the blue, helping someone in need, not just financial, but listening and or perhaps giving some kind of advice, without expecting anything in return?

I know when I am moody, short tempered or just being absolutely unpleasant I know that I am out of sync with what I am not grateful for. The Universe will always present herself with people and situations to mirror your inner world. So, by starting your day either journaling, praying, or acknowledging what you should be grateful for will certainly have an impact on your life.

I am fortunate to work from home and have my own time schedule. Live in a comfortable safe home and neighbourhood surrounded by beautiful African savanna, and wildlife national parks.

I am healthy, need to lose a few extra Christmas kilograms, have a loving family and so blessed to have my first grandchild in July 2020.

With all the blessings in my life I am so grateful for the challenges and opportunities that presented themselves to me.

I have always wanted to paint and took on the challenge this year. Thanks to Internet and YouTube I have learnt so much and have sold a few paintings.

I have always wanted to know more about internet marketing and making money while enjoying the learning process too. Googled hundreds of offers and opportunities from companies but could not feel that this was the organization to join. Then by chance I read a super informative article and it had a link to join Wealthy Affiliates. That was it!

With all this in mind I want to say thank you to Wealthy Affiliates, especially to Kyle for his motivation and messages on how I am doing and where he can help. The training is modules are of such high standard. Five articles written and indexed. I could never have done it with out the training with WA. Any queries and answers to questions I have encountered were solved within hours.

I have learnt so much in such a short time. The wealth of knowledge and experience the WA members are so willing to give, the sincerity and family bond is absolutely overwhelming. Thank you to each and every one of you for being such amazing friends.

For the newbies who have joined Wealthy Affiliates. I welcome you and wish you a super successful journey with our family of friends and like minded super focused, enthusiastic people.

Thank you, Wealthy Affiliates. May you be blessed with so much more prosperity in 2020.