Have you ever found something of yours that you had forgotten about? Maybe it is a box of high-school memorabilia you left at your parents, and you discover it again thirty years later. Or, maybe it is a wad of cash you stashed in an underwear drawer and find much later. Perhaps you get to the back of the pantry and find a can of your favorite soup you bought months ago and forgot about, and today is the perfect day for it. Maybe you move the couch and find that ring you thought was lost forever.
How great is it to find something that you once valued, then forgot about, and finally rediscovered? It's like Christmas morning at ten years old, right? It's like you can see your net worth increase exponentially right before your eyes!
That is what gratitude can do for you if you are out of practice. It will make you instantly happier and wealthier without actually bringing anything new into your possession. Gratitude will simply help you find things that you already possess but have forgotten. Once you rediscover them and experience true gratitude for them, you can add them to your catalog of possessions that you are conscious of. In so doing, you feel richer.
Have you ever noticed that wealthy people get more freebies? Athletes get free shoes (not cheap shoes; top-of-the-line shoes), high-rollers get free stays in Las Vegas, businessman get lunch and golf paid for, etcetera. The people who can afford anything they want are given the best life has to offer for free. People who cannot afford many luxuries are given nothing and forced to pay full price. Wealth attracts wealth.
Therefore, if you start feeling richer, you will attract wealth. The more grateful you feel and the wealthier you feel, the more you will transmit such feelings like a superstar. People will not be able to help themselves; they will offer you jobs, contracts, and freebies. You will win contests and door prizes. You will attract more to be thankful for and if you feel that thankfulness, you will attract even more.
What is in your life that you have forgotten? Who is in your life that you have forgotten? What untold riches are waiting to be rediscovered, and how much richer will you be, when you spend the next few minutes trying to thing of someone or somthing to be grateful for all over again?
2 comments:
This was GREAT! Thanks for the reminder. I'm grateful for having read this. =)
Recently, Keith & I cleaned out our hall closet where I have dutifully stored all of our financial records each year, once the taxes have been prepared.
Because there was NO further room in this closet, I emptied all the boxes out and lined them up chronologically in our hallway. Mutually, we decided to weed through records Keith had dating back to the mid-80's and keep only things from 2000 forward.
We pulled all legal documents--buying and selling of houses, birth certificates, death certificates, etc.
One item we came across concerned Keith's youngest son, who is now nearly 27. At age 8, he had been apprehended shoplifting candy from the local Walmart. The court documents listed the items--2 8-packs of BubbleYum and some DinoSlurps, all written out in legalese.
His punishment was to be banned from the local Walmart for a year.
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