Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melodie Beattie
I really enjoy getting up every morning and writing my gratitoodz posts. The interesting thing is I could go to bed the night before and not know what I’m going to write about and then wake up the next morning and immediately have an idea for a post. I then sit down and the words just begin to flow with such ease, no real work at all. The fun part is looking for an image and quote to go with each post, it is honestly a really fun “task.”
This morning I wanted to touch on something I wrote about in my post titled “My New Years Eve Gratitoodz,” and how writing my gratitoodz posts every day has helped me to attract much more positive experiences in my life. In that post I used an example of road rage and how I now react to such events in my life, however here is the interesting thing, since I started writing and focusing on my gratitudes every morning I have not had one single incident in almost two weeks when before it was a daily occurrence.
I started writing my gratitudes around the 22nd of December, and the last known incident where I experienced road rage was a few days before that, when I came upon an accident where a truck loaded down with Dr. Pepper spilled all of it out into the street.
I was approaching the intersection and was right in the blind spot of a man in an SUV who was too busy checking out the cans of soda that were rolling all over the place, and without looking he began to merge into my lane as my front bumper was right around his left passenger door so I tapped on my horn to warn him. This led to a confrontation that lasted for about ten minutes where I did my best to explain to him how wrong he was for being upset with me, and how poorly he was behaving in front of his young daughter.
At this time in my life I was still under the impression that it was my responsibility to point out all the mistakes people made, or do my best to fulfill their happiness at the expense of my own, which I will touch more on in a later post today.
My dad and I we talk five to seven days a week, and most calls last two hours, and one thing that we used to discuss almost every time we talked was how the world had become a much more dangerous and confrontational place.
I had pointed out that growing up when I first started driving I would have those “Oh my God I could have died” experiences maybe once a month. You know the ones I’m talking about, you’re just going about your life driving around town taking care of business when you or someone else does something so stupid that you realize that your life came within just feet or seconds of possibly ending that day.
Well we noticed that those now occurred daily, along with the fact it was now impossible to go out into public and not experience a confrontation with a store clerk who just happened to be having a bad day, or quite simply was just rude and ill-mannered. Since I started writing my gratitude posts that has only happened once and I was prepared to address this issue with every level of management I could all the way up to the owner of the company when I realized how much power I was giving him over my life, and decided it was just not worth it to give that brief moment one more thought.
So here I am, at the point. If you haven’t figured out yet that I can be a bit long winded I’m putting into print now for you, you haven now been warned.
The Law of Attraction says that “like attracts like.” Your thoughts become things, and my thoughts for so long have been focusing on the negative in life that, that is definitely what I was going to experience. It is kind of hard not to find those things when that is all you look for.
My day now begins with me being thankful which starts me off in a very positive direction, and now I attract more positive in my life than negative. You also can’t create others realities, you cannot be responsible for their happiness, and when I learned that it no longer mattered when someone would enter my life however fleeting the moment was and tried to bring chaos into it.
So now the world is no longer a much more dangerous or confrontational place, it is a place filled with loving family and friends. It is a place filled with interesting people and experiences, it is a wonderful place.
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