A Thought on Thursday ~ 04/22/10

Happy Thursday everyone and yes another day to be aware and acknowledge what we are grateful for. The greatest thing about gratitude is that it lies within each others heart and mind, just how much is dependent how much YOU allow yourself to acknowledge and accept.

So many times we allow others do dictate how we feel. We watch the news we accept and anger or sorrow into our lives. We listen to others who may be on a vicious cycle of negative thinking or negative actions and we become part of their world sometimes with out knowing.

We watch television programs which glorify or dramatize values that we don't agree with and we get angry or disappointed with the shows we watch and have no concrete way to change anything but ourselves.

I am not saying that other emotions don't serve a purpose in our life. They do it is good to show a bit of resolve over something, or shed a tear that appears when something touches us.

All emotions are normal to feel but when a emotion begins to dominate in our life, and tear the fiber of our happiness longer than expected we then become a ship without a sail in a storm.

We drift and become overwhelmed with the rising storms.

The way to combat all of this of course is through up fitting your ship (heart and mind) with stronger navigational tools. Better maps, sails, a small motor.

Better maps= goals written out, a gratitude journal which has specific items which we acknowledge that we are grateful for.

Sails= anything with inspirational effects on your spirit, great music, a touching video or a great book. Prayer and faith are two very important ingredients to help with our direction and focus they ground us and help to steer our soul.

A Small Motor= our fuel, our food and what and how we eat. When we sleep and for how long all help our mood, spirit and ability to steer through rough times. The old saying we are what we eat, or rolling out on the wrong side of bed is almost always when we are following poor diet choices or sleep habits.

We all have choices we make each day and those choices flow down a river of life. Do the choices you make allow you proper control or do they send you drifting out of control.

Do you acknowledge what your grateful for in life or do you search for something that you already have.

Questions only you can answer and become aware of through thought and mediation.

The power of the question.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.

You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

~NAGUIB MAHFOUZ

Become wise about yourself, ask those questions of How and What if?

Become part of the solution in life

not part of the problems.

Make a difference, share a smile or 2 or 3 or 4. They are free to give and the payback is often better than the investment.

Till next time......Smile and ask the question

What if I lived with more gratitude in my life?

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