"Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude and then some more Gratitude.
We all have so much to be thankful for."
I have come to make feeling grateful a habit that I do every day and my life keeps being filled with more things to be grateful for. Strange how that works. Of course I don't list all the things I'm grateful for every day because there isn't enough time. Like many of these success tips I didn't always feel gratitude about life but I'm a good learner, well maybe sometimes a slow learner and life has a way of kicking your a... to teach you. I got stories....
I remember when i first got the idea of gratitude. It was 1989 in NYC and a very dear friend/ex-girlfriend was dying of AIDS and I was spending a lot of time with her. I was going thorough the most difficult period of my life at the time, struggling to not become homeless, getting hit by a drunk driver and having my car totaled and suffering whiplash and a lot more. In the midst of this my friend told me she didn't want me to visit one day because she didn't want to depress me because she was having a real bad day. In that moment of extreme compassion on her part I got it.
She was dying and she was concerned with not depressing me.
This was more that a light bulb moment it was more like a sun lighting up all the dark places in my head and heart. I got it, I really got it.
I realized how much I had to be grateful for and that no matter how tough things were I would always live my life grateful for every single moment. So I offer you the gift I was given in that moment and I pass it along. Make a list of all the things you can be grateful for, large and small and then live every day knowing that you can be grateful for even the challenges as well.
Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude and then some more Gratitude......... It will transform your life.
John Duffy
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