My mom used to have many wonderful sayings, but one of her favorites was – “No matter how bad you think you’ve got it, you only have to look to the left of you and to the right of you to see someone who’s got it a lot worse than you do.” That is so true, especially these days with all of the doom and gloom going around. It’s hard to be grateful sometimes when you feel like the world is crashing in on you. But the truth is that gratitude about “What IS Right Now” is your only ticket out of the situation you are in. And it sure feels better to be grateful than to be angry, mad, depressed, guilty, hopeless…
If you’ve got a roof over your head, there are some who do not. If you are healthy, there are some who are not. If you have enough to eat, there are some who go to bed hungry. If you have children, even rebellious ones, there are some who would give anything to have even one child. If you still have your mother, even if she’s not perfect, there are some like me who lost theirs early in life. It is all in how you look at things.
If you believe that the Law of Attraction is at work in the world, and that what we put our attention on is what we attract, then it only makes sense to do everything we can to feel as good about “What IS” as we possibly can.
There’s an old Native American story I heard as a child that goes something like this: A wise old medicine man was teaching his pupil about the world, and he explained that every man has two coyotes living inside of him that are constantly doing battle. One is good, kind and loving, and the other one is cruel, bad and mean spirited. The student asked the old man, “Which one wins?” The old man’s answer was:
“The one you feed?”
Better to feed the grateful coyote…
A friend of mine helped me to make a video to Attitude of Gratitude. If you’ve been to my website you’ve probably already heard the song, but thought you might like to have a visual to help get those grateful juices flowing. Thanks to Darlene Siddons at www.spiritedboutique.com for helping me with the video. Hope you enjoy it.
i am glad you like it…it was fun to make and you were wonderful to work with…if anyone would like a video of their own, i produce them for business and individuals…have fun!!!
HT DEBBIE, WOW WOW I REALY LOVE YOUR STUFF, I HAVE BEEN CALLING MY DAUGHTER IN OREGON, AND PLAYING YOUR MUSIC, SHE ALSO HAS 4 CHILDREN, WE HAVE BEEN SINGING YOUR ATTITUDE SONG IT IS SUCH FUN. I AM A GROUP LEADER, ALSO I LOVE TO MOTIVATE PEOPLE, YOU HAVE REALLY LIFTED ME, I MYSELF SING AND HAVE A VERY MUSICAL FAMILY, A ALSO LOVE YOUR 4 STEP PROGRAM, THATS REALLY GOOD, PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ASKING ME, HOW DO I FIX MY PROBLEMS? NOW I THINK I CAN SHOW THEM, GOOD JOB DEBBIE. LOVE SUSAN
March 4th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
hi debbie….
i am glad you like it…it was fun to make and you were wonderful to work with…if anyone would like a video of their own, i produce them for business and individuals…have fun!!!
darlene
http://visionmapvideo.blogspot.com/
June 30th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
HT DEBBIE, WOW WOW I REALY LOVE YOUR STUFF, I HAVE BEEN CALLING MY DAUGHTER IN OREGON, AND PLAYING YOUR MUSIC, SHE ALSO HAS 4 CHILDREN, WE HAVE BEEN SINGING YOUR ATTITUDE SONG IT IS SUCH FUN. I AM A GROUP LEADER, ALSO I LOVE TO MOTIVATE PEOPLE, YOU HAVE REALLY LIFTED ME, I MYSELF SING AND HAVE A VERY MUSICAL FAMILY, A ALSO LOVE YOUR 4 STEP PROGRAM, THATS REALLY GOOD, PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ASKING ME, HOW DO I FIX MY PROBLEMS? NOW I THINK I CAN SHOW THEM, GOOD JOB DEBBIE. LOVE SUSAN