Blessings

Count your blessings: A grateful heart attracts more joy, love, and prosperity.

Everyone understands pain. Yet few enjoy hearing about your pain on a constant basis. The people we choose to be around are the ones who lift us up - make us "happy" - are interested in seeing us succeed. No one will be "happy" all the time - but there is a way to respond to unhappiness which is tolerable. And if you truly attempt to seek out the positive then when you find yourself dealing with the negative, you may find you have accumulated a lot of unexpected support.

I temporarily forgot. I found it difficult to see positives in certain people- I was so blinded by my judgment of their behaviour and saw the negatives to brightly that it was easy to ignore the good.

Its important to see that your happiness is WITHIN you and not dependent on outside sources. If we can TRULY believe this then we will be happy- but it's much harder to do than it is to ask of ourselves. It is, like everything else in life, a choice. We can choose to be happy with ourselves, with what we have. We can choose to count our blessings give thanks for the things we have been given... or we can choose to see faults instead of strengths. If we choose to look at the positive above the negative, should we be surprised when we are upset rather than proud, disheartened rather than invigorated?!

NO! We have set ourselves up to be disappointed. We must stop this - we must make the conscious choice to love, create, support, praise, marvel... For in these choices is not only happiness and fulfillment but control over our own destiny.

Og Mandino writes, "Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."

The sun is shining - it's a beautiful day!

Love you,

M