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THIS ISSUE: Mastering gratitude
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Hello !
Thanks for reading.
I recently saw an article in Bottom Line Personal called "The Best
Thing I Did in 2005"
They interviewed some well-known people and asked them to recount the
best
thing they had done in 2005. That got me to thinking the same
question.
So, in this holiday season of hustling and bustling take a moment and
ask yourself
"What is the best thing I did in 2005". If you let me know, I'll
publish it in my
next issue and I won't use your name unless you tell me it's OK.
This could be very inspirational, I think.
And now a terrific article I found just yesterday that I know WILL help
you.
I particularly like formula #5 and use it many times every day.
"Thank You" - 10 Formulas To Master Gratitude
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1. Picture how great you will feel when you master gratitude.
We all want to live happy lives. After studying happiness for
over thirty years, I have found that a key element in every person
who is truly happy is: They are grateful for all that they can be
grateful for. A grateful person is a joyful person.
People who are lacking happiness wonder about the missing
ingredient.
When you master gratitude yourself, you will easily recognize
that the missing ingredient was: Gratitude.
2. Here is a one-sentence formula for becoming a grateful person:
Think, Speak, and Act like a grateful person does.
There is no mystery about how to become a person who has
internalized the attribute of gratitude. Think gratefully. Speak
gratefully. Act gratefully.
When you consistently do these three things, you are consistently
grateful.
Even before this pattern has become consistent for you, every
little bit of thinking, speaking, and acting this way makes you
more grateful than if you wouldn't have thought, spoken, or acted
this way.
3. You will notice what you are looking for.
Someone who loves birds will notice them, when most people
wouldn't have seen them even though others would just pass them by
without registering them. Someone who loves flowers notices them
even though others would just pass them by without registering
them. Someone who is looking for things to complain about will
notice what he is looking for. And someone who hates litter will
see the litter rather than seeing the birds and the flowers.
Consider it important to be grateful. Then you will notice more
and more kind things that others do for you. And you will remember
more kind things that others have done for you in the past. These
will serve as reminders for you to do similar things for others.
4. View yourself as being a person who is grateful and fervently
wants to keep upgrading his level of gratitude.
Your self-image creates you. Who are you? "I am a person who is
full of gratitude for all that I can be grateful for." When this is
how you consider yourself, you will say and do more things that
will be an expression of gratitude.
5. A question you can ask yourself any time you wish is, "What am I
grateful for right now?"
How will it affect your life if you build up the habit of asking
this question to yourself at least ten times a day? The only way
that you can know for sure is to actually do it.
Someone once told me that he felt annoyed by his father's habit
of saying, "You know," every few sentences. He spoke to his father
about it and his father found it too difficult for him to eliminate
the "You knows." You know how it is, don't you?
I suggested that each time he hears his father say, "You know,"
he should immediately ask himself, "What am I grateful for?" Not
only did he become more grateful to his father, he added much
gratitude and happiness to his entire life. He even became grateful
to his father for having this habit.
6. Keep a gratitude journal.
Thinking about gratitude is wonderful. But writing down what you
are grateful for in a journal will have a much stronger effect.
Seeing the items adding up on paper, gives you an ever-increasing
realization that you have much for which to be grateful. Some find
it beneficial to make a quota of at least five or ten things a day.
Whenever you want an emotional lift, take out your journal and
read it.
7. Be grateful for all your skills, abilities, talents, knowledge,
inner resources and outer resources.
As I am typing this, I am grateful that I can type and I am
grateful to my mother for teaching me how to type when I was a
young boy. When you read this, be grateful that you know how to
read and that you are adding gratitude as one of your precious
inner resources.
8. Be grateful for your memory and brain.
The latest estimate is that we all have over 100 billion brain
cells. Wherever you go, your brain with all its memories of
gratitude go with you. You can access those life-enhancing memories
any time you wish.
What do you hear more often, people complaining about their
memory or people being grateful for their magnificent, miraculous
giant computer? The amount of memory the average person has stored
in such a small area is mind-boggling.
Some people tend to be upset by what they can't remember.
Whenever you can't remember something, immediately, say to
yourself, "I am grateful for all that I do remember."
9. Whenever you hear a telephone ringing, say to yourself, "I am
grateful I am alive and I am grateful I can hear."
The more often you will hear telephones ringing, the easier it
will be for you to increase your level of gratitude.
10. Associate the word gratitude with: happiness, joy, bliss,
euphoria, ecstasy.
How do you do this? Whenever you feel positive feelings of
gratitude, enthusiastically say, "Happiness, joy, bliss, euphoria,
ecstasy." If you want to make this really work well, look in a
mirror as you do so. Think thoughts of gratitude and see the smile
of gratitude on your face.
As you keep applying these 10 formulas, you will create yourself
into a happy, grateful person.
© 2005 Zelig Pliskin
This article is based on Rabbi Zelig Pliskin's new book: "THANK
YOU!; Gratitude: Formulas, Stories, and Insights. Artscroll has
transformed the book into "The Ultimate Thank You Card."
www.artscroll.com/Books/tyoup.html
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I suggest printing that up and reading it every day.
Right now I have to go shovel snow and while it's not
my favorite thing to do, I'm grateful that, physically,
I can. Millions cannot.
Thanks again for reading and have a great week!
If I can answer any questions for you, please drop me an email at Leo
AT LeoQuinn.com
and if I don't know the answer I can point you in the right
direction.
Sincerely,
Leo
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