Gratitude and Abundance

When you live and act with gratitude, it keeps you focused on abundance rather than on lack and limitation. Think about it. When you are grateful and appreciative for what you have, your mind is occupied with positive thoughts. By contrast, when you are bitter, resentful or apprehensive about what you don’t have, it focuses your mind on lack and limitation. Which focus do you think is more productive, more creative, more oriented towards success? Positive focus, of course. Just thinking about something does not necessarily make it so. Accomplish requires thought plus action. Yet without positive focus in your thoughts, your actions will be ineffective. So success starts with a positive focus, and gratitude is a major component of that.

Have you ever gone to a lot of trouble and expense to select and purchase a gift for someone, and then the person you gave it to didn’t even acknowledge it? How would you feel if such a thing happened? Would you be likely to give that person another gift?

The same dynamic also operates on a larger scale. Without gratitude, the good things in life stop coming your way. This is not due to some vengeful cosmic law. In fact, the good things actually continue to come, but without gratitude they are of no use to you because you cannot appreciate or benefit from them.

Gratitude compels you to ask yourself, “What is good about this?” When you regularly ask and answer that question, you find value. When you utilize that value, you enjoy abundance.