Have An Attitude Of Gratitude

Being Grateful is Self-Rewarding and Creates A Less Stressful Life

The phrase have an attitude of gratitude has practically become trite. But until a better phrase comes along, it is certainly one worth adhering to. 

George Horace Lorimer, the editor-in-chief of The Saturday Evening Post for over 35 years, had a great philosophy about gratitude: "It is good to have money and the things money can buy, but it is good too to check up once in awhile and make sure that you have not lost the things money cannot buy."

Today, many people, particularly in the New Age thinking of spiritual and personal self development, advocate that we each undertake a daily ritual of gratitude identification by asking ourselves:

What or who inspired me today?

What or who brought happiness to me today?

What or who brought comfort, peace or love to me today and how did they do so?

Being thankful and grateful for the acts of kindness ─ both great and small ─ that you receive throughout each day is a self-rewarding and less stressful way to travel your path. 

Expressing your gratitude with sincerity to those who have given you something and who have helped to ease your journey during the course of each day will be appreciated by those others while simultaneously adding to your own karmic bank.  

This concludes our short series of blog posts on gratitude. We hope they have sparked many thoughts and ideas on how you can commit to making 2016 your personal Year of Gratitude. Please let us know how your gratitude journey progresses throughout the year. 

This article has been partially excerpted from the Amazon best-selling book Project You: Living A Determined Life, available in both paperback and Kindle formats.