Day 19 - Gratitude - Ingratitude

 Gratitude         (Goal Number:         )           Ingratitude

appreciation, thanks, praise, indebtedness, bless                  nonacknowledgment, denial, unthankful, curse

 

 AWAKE TO THE GENUINE VALUE: 

There is so much in life for which you are grateful. You have learned that even the hard lessons are teachers, for which you can be appreciative, at least eventually. You find yourself giving thanks for the big and small, for sunsets and family, for rainbows and God. Every day you give thanks and praise for the beauty of the earth and for the gift of life itself. You have a debt of gratitude, for you realize the bountiful blessings of all that has been freely given to you. You strive to be a blessing every moment of every day.

 PARTIALLY ASLEEP TO THE GENUINE VALUE: 

You are frequently grateful, maybe not for everything, but for a lot of things. Some things you simply take for granted. Things that do not go your way, you are not grateful, and complain, and connive to get your way. You rarely express appreciation for all the beauty of the earth. You only try to be a blessing to a select group.

LIVING IN THE IMPOSTOR VALUE:

You find lttle for which to be grateful. You don’t see and therefore don’t acknowledge the many blessings filling every single day. You miss so many opportunities because you don’t see them for what they are. You deny there are blessings in your life, or speak of them only with sarcasm. Your attitude is one of cursing life and other people who you think get all of the breaks in life. In fact, you often make fun of people with thankful hearts and happy lives, secretly wishing it could be you.

Look at your life. Which is the most true for you?   ____ 1   _____ 2  _____ 3

What to do:

DECISION

Choose. Which do you want for yourself and your world? Which way would you like life to be?

FOCUSING YOUR MIND

Going for the target you have chosen

To shift in the direction of gratitude, select some or all of the following and copy them in order to have them with you. Live with them. Think about them. Absorb them.

·       I look around and give thanks for what I see.

·       I spend a few minutes every morning giving thanks and praise.

·       I acknowledge others and am grateful for them being in my life.

·       I look at nature and marvel and celebrate it.

·       I look in the mirror and see a grateful face, and I give thanks for the gift of life.

·       I decide to be a blessing in every way I can, in every moment I can.

REINFORCING BEHAVIORS

Action steps to take to get off the log

·     Write a letter to God giving thanks for everything you can think of. Reread it periodically.

·     Take a walk and give thanks for all you see and think how it all is a blessing. Give thanks for human inventions and natural things.

·     Think of ways to be a blessing to others today, do them – then do that every day.

·     Upon awaking in the morning, have your first words and thoughts be full of gratitude.

·     Shift from “Good God it’s morning” to “Good morning God.”

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