Sometimes we get to feeling down in life, or tend to overlook the positive and focus on the negative. I remember going through a particularly difficult season of my life and it seemed like every time I would go to my best friend about my problems, she would tell me to make a gratitude list. I didn’t want to. A big part of me just wanted to stay on the pity-pot, but I knew deep down she was right so I sat down and made a list of all the things I was grateful. I posted it on my wall and looked at it frequently.
I realized that I was blessed beyond belief and I was allowing one or two things to distort my perception of my life. I began saying thank you often and learned to cultivate an attitude of gratitude and foster a grateful heart. Zig Ziglar nailed it when he said that, “Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.”
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