If you had time to do ONLY ONE meaningful action every day ...

A warm welcome to the readers of this blog - which has been a long time coming :-)! This is my first entry, marking today as the first day of the rest of my life - haha! - how philosophical is that! It is my hope and wish, that each day you will take something meaningful away from here, which will make your day, or your life, brighter, easier, and perhaps more meaningful. I look forward to being on this journey - first and foremost with myself :-), and equally important, with whoever wants to share it with me. To you, here's another warm welcome :-)!

Today's thought:

When I look back at my life, and try to determine the single most important action I took to change my life - to move from being and staying a 'victim', attracting huge amounts of negative experiences despite being a good person, I have no doubts that my life started to change when I learnt to become consciously 'grateful' for the 'good' things in my life. The 'good' here refers to what brought comfort to me, a smile to my lips, a happy lifting of the heart, a sense of joy in my whole being.

So, how does this work, I'm asked again, and again. The answer is: Through expressing gratitude for what works in our lives. Because being grateful is another form of acknowledging the 'positive' experiences we have, and we attract to ourselves that which we think more about. E.g. we humans tend to pay more attention to that which doesn't work in our lives, and less to the moments that DO work - moments of happiness, joyous abandonment to laughter, moments that make our hearts sing. Most of us do say, 'Oh, thank God', when we are surprised by an unexpected good turn of events, but it's done in a way that is still connected with fear - a fear of what might have happened if this piece of good fortune hadn't come our way. I used to be like this, till I learnt to change it to, 'Thank YOU, God' - or, if you so wish, replace 'God' with whatever Higher Intelligence you believe in.

Funny, how we are so well raised as to say 'Thank you' when someone says 'Bless you' to us even when we sneeze, but how we take all the small and big wondrous events of our life for granted, and let them go by without expressing gratitude for them.

Tomorrow: The easiest expression of gratitude - a 5-minute tip ... and one that attracts more of things to be grateful for :-) ...

Until then,

Kiki ;-)

Comment: Thanks a lot Libby (solutionsfromwithin.ca), for your wonderful and spontaneous reaction to this, my new venture :-)!