The Significance of a Gratitude List in the Modern Day

Ever wondered how a gratitude list could change your life for the better? Interested? Read on.

I think feeling grateful for the blessings you already have in your life helps you to love yourself and others freely and effortlessly. Whenever I feel bogged down with grief, I try to remember some of the things I am grateful for in my life, and eventually, I raise my spirits.

Is Life about Competing with Others?

When you compare your life with others, you may feel jealous, inferior or less than. Life is not about competing with others. Life is about competing with yourself to become a better and even better version of yourself. Discover your new and upgraded qualities and add them to your gratitude list.

Revise Your Gratitude List

Your gratitude list will grow as you revise it from time to time. It is a great way to start each day by writing down three things you are grateful for as a part of your morning ritual. If you start your morning right, you are apt to prepare yourself for a great day ahead.

Invest Yourself in Personal Development Books

These motivational books make you aware of how you can improve your life and take small steps in the direction of your goals. The more you achieve, the more uplifted you feel and the more you can expand your list of blessings in life.

Teach Your Family and the Neighborhood About Gratitude

You shouldn't keep the knowledge of feeling grateful only to yourself. Rather, you should share it with family and neighbors who are going through difficult times so that they understand that feeling gratitude for the blessings they already have will ease up all tense situations. Ask them to maintain gratitude journals as well. Always remember sharing is caring.

Love and Gratitude Have the Same Frequency

If life has knocked you off harshly, and you are having difficulty loving yourself and others, try gratitude because ultimately gratitude and love have the same frequency according to research studies. Praying and letting the Universe know all the stuff you are grateful for in life raises your frequency, and you will find you can start loving yourself and others gradually once again.

Furthermore, with a raised frequency, you can attract all the stuff you want for yourself into your life effectively. You feel grateful for them once they are manifested, and you list them down in your gratitude journal for remembering them in your later confessions.

My Gratitude List

I do maintain a gratitude list. Dated December 1st, 2019, I have written and revised my gratitude list as follows:

1. I am grateful for life.
2. I have a working head, hands, and feet.
3. I have eyes to see and ears to hear.
4. My body is perfectly healthy.
5. I have a Master of Science degree in Software Technology.
6. I am grateful for writing both at EzineArticles.com and HubPages.com.
7. I love to grin, smile and laugh. Then I am free.
8. I am grateful for gas, water, and electricity.
9. I am grateful for the food in the refrigerator and trendy clothes in my wardrobe.
10. I am grateful for my smartphone and laptop.
11. I am grateful for all household amenities.
12. I love the furniture in my room. I love my room.
13. I choose to be present and relish every moment. After all, the now is all I will ever have to be happy and enjoy life.
14. I am grateful to have a reliable chauffeur to take me to the city center where I love to shop and carry out my errands.
15. I am grateful for the pin-drop silence around me and my peace of mind.
16. I am grateful that I am still able to dream and hold a lovely vision for my future.

Yes, this is my gratitude list. Some of them may resonate with you while others will be quite different from your perspective. But you get the idea.

Conclusion

Love is the single most and strongest vibrational force on this earth. However, if you are having difficulty with love, I repeat, try gratitude and try listing it down in a journal. It is easier because the more blessings in your life you acknowledge and be grateful for, the more blessings flow into your life. This restores your love for yourself and others.

Maintaining a gratitude list is a simple worthwhile strategy and it always works.

Just forgetting this ritual won't help you at all. Commit yourself to it daily. And you will begin to comprehend its significance in the modern day.

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3 Simple Steps to Manifest Your Ideal Life - Starting Today!

 Are you still waiting for life to get better, or maybe you're wondering when that perfect partner will show up and wondering when any of your dreams are going to come true?

Well, you're not alone. Thousands of people like you are feeling frustrated that the people, places and things they want and desire, still haven't come to fruition.

It can be demoralising, knowing that you've tried everything to change your life for the better, yet it still feels like nothing's happening or happening fast enough!

I'd like to share three simple steps with you that are my secret guide to manifesting quicker than anything else you might have seen or read.

I'm sharing this with you because I understand what you must be feeling as I've been there too. Not so long ago I felt helpless, as if I was destined to live a life where I was controlled by the job I had, the house I lived in and the travel that I only could dream about.

But now, and only a few short years later, I'm able to manifest quicker than ever before. How? You may ask, well, let me share that secret with you now.

The first step is to 'Ask' the Universe for what you want. Yes you read that right. Just ask. Well, it sounds simple, but you see there's a catch and this is what it is. You have to ask while in a state of 'believing'. It sets the whole tone your thought pattern.

If you ask from a place of worry or stress, that will be your dominant thought pattern and not what you're asking for.

Secondly, you need to 'Expect' from the Universe. I know it's difficult because you can sometimes feel consumed with thinking 'how will that come to me?' or even thinking 'that will never happen'. But you have to get your mind and heart into a state of expecting, because the Universe won't believe you want it, if you're not really expecting it.

Lastly, live your hours, days and weeks in a state of feeling Grateful. You need to feel grateful and even say in your mind 'Thank You Universe'. It takes the place of expectancy to a whole higher level.

For when you're feeling grateful, for everything you have now and everything that is coming to you, it's sort of like sending a message to the Universe saying 'c'mon I'm waiting for it' and the Universe has a way of speeding things up.

Last but not least and probably the most important clue, is that you have to be a match to this process. What I mean by that is, that you need to feel it and believe it. If you're trying to believe but doubting, it won't work. You've got to know you're worth what you're asking for. Believe that life can not only get better for you but that you deserve a life of everything you ask, and it will come. But only if you can match yourself to this belief.

Take a moment and think about this... if you knew for certain, that everything you wanted was already on it's way to you today... would you be excited? I believe the answer would be Yes.

Then start feeling excited now, regardless if it's arrival or not, because it's going to come and your matching yourself up to it arriving is what makes this whole Universal process works better and quicker than ever before!

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How to Stop Worrying About Money and Start Feeling Grateful for Abundance Now (Sarah Prout)

Listen up buttercup! Money can be such a touchy touchy subject, but it’s an important one to discuss. The beliefs we hold in our hearts around the theme of prosperity and abundance can either be empowering, or they can stunt your ability to hold onto the moolah when it manifests into your life. If you worry about money you’re definitely not alone. There are many awesome ways you can start to cultivate a feeling of abundance when you have next to nothing in your bank account. Your current reality is not an indication of your worth or your potential…

The key thing to remember is that the Universe responds to how you think and feel. So why not fill your heart with the energy of abundance?

Today marks the 6th anniversary of when I signed my first rental lease after leaving my 10-year marriage with literally nothing. I left with 2 suitcases and 2 kids. I didn’t even own a car. My rent was $310 per week and it was way above and beyond my weekly budget. I was getting peanuts from my fortnightly welfare check, and I was also getting a small child support payment at irregular intervals. I also had a whopping $30,000 worth of credit card debt to pay off. The banks were calling me almost hourly. I had bills up to my eyeballs and there were some days where I didn’t know how I was going to feed my children.

The stress was unbearable, but I took things one day at a time.

As I write these words, I have earned more TODAY (and it’s only 1:49pm) than I used to live on in an entire month only 6 short years ago. It’s incredibly humbling to have walked the talk from poverty to prosperity.

I think one thing that I did was rewire my thinking and my beliefs to be grateful for whatever I had in the present moment. So if you’re stressed about money (not having enough of it) then it’s time to start believing that anything is possible. I can’t promise it will be easy, but I can promise you that the energy you put into things will always return back to you.

Prosperity consciousness is something that grows and expands over time, but you have to be willing to get rid of the beliefs and patterns that no longer serve you. So here are 7 Important (and Spiritual) Reasons You Need to Stop Worrying About Money and Start Being Grateful for Abundance Now…

1. Fear attracts fear

You have to stop being afraid of what will happen if you don’t attract more money. Instead, try distracting yourself with other things like watching TV shows or going for walks etc. Do anything you can to shift your mindset from being fearful into being present.

2. You have so much to be grateful for

A vast majority of people that reside on this beautiful planet live in real poverty. They don’t have clean water, or education or health care. If you’re reading this article then I’m guessing that you are incredibly rich and wealthy enough to be able to read, to have access to electricity and to have excellent eye sight.

You have so much to be grateful for when you put our privilege into perspective.

3. Money is just energy

Manifesting money is all about the energy that you bring to the experience. The more playful and open you can be with the Universe, the more likely it is that your vibration is buzzing at an excellent frequency to welcome in the cash.

4. A ‘lack’ mentality doesn’t and will never serve you

If anything, feeling fearful or irritated by something you perceive you DON’T have (yet) is always an invitation from your soul to see beyond the illusion and do some stellar inner work.

“Spiritual” people often like to create a divide between themselves and others to make themselves feel more in control of their awakening and feel more superior…this totally misses the point. Quite frankly I see it as a load of bull-sheeto.

5. Your time is precious

The bottom line is that life is too short to worry about anything. Most of the things in life are beyond your control. However, you do have the ability to control how you perceive certain situations.

6. You are a magnet, a beautiful magnet

Abundance isn’t just about the dollars that are in your bank account. Abundance is all about how prosperous you feel and how present you can remain in the moment with a heart filled with gratitude. This will amplify and magnetize your manifesting powers.

7. The Universe always has your back

When you learn to trust that you are infinitely LOVED, cherished and protected then life becomes more powerful and super sweet. The fear will melt away.

Let go of the fear, the limiting beliefs, and most importantly the past and start to see that you are so worthy of abundance in every area of your life.

http://sarahprout.com/stop-worrying-about-money

The Story Behind Complaining

Complaints. Complaints, complaining, complained. Now, if you're wondering why I've written the word 'complain' so many times in different ways then that's just because I'm trying to prove a point. Now, I know what you're thinking, "Oh no! She's going to start complaining about people who complain! Quickly exit this page!"

Well, don't worry. I'm not here to nag you about how complaining is wrong and how it's 'not nice' and everything, because sadly, I too complain about things a lot as well, even though I'm trying to consciously stop it. Most of us do complain, whether it's for the good or bad it doesn't matter. But for some reason we've all been programmed to do so.

There are some who are told never to complain. That doesn't really help, either. You see when someone tries not to do something, they are actually suppressing the need to say how they feel which isn't exactly a good thing. A thought that isn't said out loud is kind of like a seed being planted in the dark. It would eventually grow into a tree which bears fruits. In the case of suppressing thoughts and opinions you would one day find that the thoughts you have once kept in the dark exploding inside of you.

But if you bring a seed into the light it loses the ability to grow and thus you will eventually learn to manage the thoughts you once suppressed.

Complaints actually can help people improve. But in that case you aren't really complaining. You're actually giving feedback to someone in hopes that they can improve on themselves and you wouldn't want to actually find any faults in them. Instead you genuinely want to help them find ways to make themselves better.

The difference is when we complain about something because we are finding faults in it. When we are just finding faults in people and in the situations that we come across, we are basically just finding faults in ourselves. Ever heard the saying 'The world is just a reflection of you'? Well, believe it or not, it's actually true!

You see whenever you think, say or do something, you send out powerful vibrations that attract to you the environment around you. If that sounded too science-y, to put it in simple words, anything that happens around you is because of you!

So when you are complaining about something, do remember that you are the one that put yourself into that mess in the first place. Without your thoughts, words and actions the annoying situation in front of you would not be able to take place!

The annoying friend you have? That's because of you!

Your teacher/boss/parent that keeps nagging at you? That's because of you too!

The cat that pooped on your lawn that's always causing trouble around your neighborhood? Guess what? It's also because of your thoughts!

So, how do you stop this? First things first. Try to consciously take effort not to complain about the things that go wrong to your friends, instead try countering it by counting your blessings and feeling grateful for the things that went right in your day.

Slowly, as you regain conscious control of your thoughts, you will find that you are more likely to see the brighter side of things whenever situations occur in which you would usually feel the need to complain about.

Start slowly... but just don't forget to start. So, Good Luck! And I'll see you at the brighter side.

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