1. Be sincerely grateful.
Today, day one of my experiment, I begin this journey developing and maintaining a focus of gratitude. Insuring that I dwell in thanksgiving for all that I have, have had and will have. When a negative thought enters my mind I will consciously cancel it out by thinking or saying “Cancel. Cancel.”
Wallace D. Wattles makes it very clear how important gratitude is in taxiing us from where we are right now to a far better place. One you may not even imagine. Some may say, “I like my world just how it is!” That is wonderful and I am so happy for you. Though, isn’t there just a little area worth improving upon?
My wishes, dreams, expectations are to land a new career with a personal income of $120,000.00 or more. A career that is in the writing business, public speaking business, coaching business, Nutrition business, motivation business, health business, etc. These careers definitely fit into my life loves and passions.
Who hasn’t dreamt of winning the lottery? I have so often that I can feel the foam cardboard between my finger tips that has a picture of my check, written out to me. I’m standing there smiling from ear to ear. I smell the room, I can see and hear the people in front of me and I notice how the flash of the cameras taint the clarity of my vision. I also know what I am wearing and how I traveled there to exchange my ticket for cash.
I have a lot of dreams. Dreams are just that though, dreams, without a clarity of focus. A sincere gratitude of what you have had in the past, how you got to where you are today and knowing that this moment is necessary to carry you over into the next part of your journey is your ticket. With that said, we are grateful for this moment, without it, we would be stuck in yesterday, never growing and never realizing what we’re actually able to achieve and/or accomplish.
The following is an excerpt from Wallace D. Wattles book “The Science of Getting Rich”, about how important gratitude is and how it affects us. If you haven’t read his book or listened to it yet, I highly recommend it.
"When good things come to us, the more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme Power, the more good things we will receive—and the more rapidly they will come. The reason for this is simply that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.
If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true. The good things you already possess have come to you because of certain laws. Gratitude will lead your mind out along the ways by which things come. And, it will keep you in close harmony with creative thought and prevent you from falling into competitive thought.
Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the Infinite and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking that the supply of riches is limited—and to think that would be fatal to your hopes.
There is a law of gratitude, and if you are to get the results you seek, it is absolutely necessary that you should observe this law.
The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme Power is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed. And, as a result, God responds with an instantaneous movement toward you.
“Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you.” That is a statement of psychological truth.
And, if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in the formless substance will be strong and continuous. The movement of the things you want will always be toward you. Notice the grateful attitude that Jesus took—how he always
seems to be saying, “I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hearest me.” You cannot exercise much power without gratitude, because it is gratitude that keeps you connected with power.
The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the poor, the squalid, and the mean—and your mind takes the form of these things. You will then transmit these forms or mental images to the formless. Thus, the common, the poor, the squalid, and the mean will come to you.
To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things. On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best and to become the best.
The creative power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention. We are thinking substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore, it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best and will receive the best.”
(Wattles, W.D., The science of getting rich, Gratitude)
So today, day one, I am grateful. I am very, very grateful. This is my focus today and is now an important part of my day, everyday, from here on out
Peace be to you always.
The creative power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention. We are thinking substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore, it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best and will receive the best.”
(Wattles, W.D., The science of getting rich, Gratitude)
So today, day one, I am grateful. I am very, very grateful. This is my focus today and is now an important part of my day, everyday, from here on out
Peace be to you always.
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