Happy Sunday you all!!! It is a 3 day weekend so the kids are really excited about being able to sleep in tomorrow. I need to go to work since it is not a holiday for me so will miss spending the day with them. I always make sure to keep Sundays completely free and spend the time this valuable time together as a family.
During my morning reflection today, I realized how important it is for me to continuously express my gratitude for all the things that I have in my life. I keep a gratitude journal and I try to write a few things that I am grateful for everyday if I can. I noticed how writing it down helps me to remember to have the attitude of gratitude.
I recently read in a book once that in addition to having gratitude everyday, a very good practice is also to be thankful for the things that are yet to come. The author described it as a way to attract the things that you want. I thought it was a very interesting concept. I was not sure about the ability to attract by being thankful as if you already have it.
I guess it was in a way describing the feeling of really wanting something deeply and by being grateful for it, it changes your thoughts. For me, I took it as one would feel more motivated to go after the future thing that are thankful for.
I felt really good when I read that and I somehow can't seem to remember where I read it first. I have since read about the same concept in a couple of other books as well and decided that I am going to give it a try.
So now, I not only am grateful for the things that happen in a day but also for the things that are yet to come to me. For example, I wrote I am thankful for the wondering job opportunity coming my way soon. As I am now writing and thinking about this a little more, I realized that being specific really helps rather then just writing a wonderful job opportunity. In order for me to really feel the gratitude, I need to get some detail about the wonderful job opportunity and what that means. Actually I may not get all the things that I want so focusing in on the top most important thing, like working from home a couple days a week, will be a start.
I do think that it is a great way to feel optimistic about life. You may not have everything that you would like right now, but knowing that and being thankful for it to come to you some day really pushes me and gives me hope. If I am half-hearted about it, it would not come to me. I have to be full in and really feel the gratitude in my bones.
My initial thought was also what if I am setting my expectations to high and hoping for something that will not come to me. Will I be disappointed that I was all this time being grateful for nothing? No...... it never goes to waste.
When I start being thankful for all the things that are yet to come to my life, the push that I feel is real. Rather than feeling stuck in some situations, I find that I start to think about the ways that I can really move forwards. I may not have the solution or I may not have the thing that I want right away but it forces me to stop the doubts that are in my mind.
Doubting that my dreams will come true will only make it go away. If I am thankful that one day I will get it, I feel like I have surrendered my request to the universe. I am still going to do my part and have a plan but I don't need to know if I will ever receive it. I can only do my part and what is mean't to be will be.
Being in gratitude for the things that are yet to come helps me in some way to stay in faith and not loose hope. I still have a lot of work to do on myself to firmly plant the roots of my faith deep in the ground and hopefully feeling and living a life of gratitude will make the roots deeper.
So from here on out, I will be thankful for the all the things that are coming my way. I may not see them and I may not get everything, but I will always be thankful for the past, present and future.
Wish you love and peace my friends!
Peace,
Monita
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