start monday with gratitude

To move into a place of richness, let’s start this week by expressing gratitude for the small things that you probably take for granted, as they’re the things that have been present all throughout your life.

For the next 15 minutes or so, walk through your normal day thinking of all the little things that you take for granted and now take them with gratitude.

Choose an hour, it can be the first hour in the morning, the last hour before you sleep at night, or any hour in between.

Just take that hour and express gratitude for everything single small thing that you would usually take for gratitude such as the warm coffee that wakes you up, the person who created the book you’re enjoying reading before you go to sleep.

In that one hour be conscious of just how much you have to be grateful for and appreciate the wealth of blessings you can count in just one hour of your life.

Today I invite you to choose one small thing that you usually would take for granted that you now will take with gratitude. And when you express gratitude for that one thing, no matter how small and seemingly insignificant, I want you to see how that one little thing impacts so many other things in your life.

For example, your comfortable bed.

Thanks to your comfortable bed, you receive a good night’s sleep, you waken up feeling refreshed in the morning, because you feel fresh, you’ll be more fun to be around and you’ll have a more positive attitude that day. And because of your more positive attitude… and so on, and so on.

Whilst it’s important to appreciate and understand that when you express gratitude for everything in your life you soon appreciate just how rich your life is, it’s also important to appreciate and understand the opposite, that being in a place, mentally and emotionally, where you complain about everything, that that will only make you feel poor.

So today, you’re going to be grumbly. You’re moan and groan (in your head – don’t push this onto anyone around you) about everything that happens in your day that you have the ‘right’ to complain about, anything that’s not perfect.

Let’s repeat the opposite of Wednesday’s exercise.

Today rather than focusing on one thing to be grateful for, I invite you to find one thing that niggles you, that annoys you.

Pick something small like a saucepan that has a loose handle that you’ve never got round to fixing.

Then see how that one, seemingly insignificant thing can have a negative impact in the rest of your day, week, life should you continue to view it from that niggly and negative perspective.

Take a niggle, something small that irritates you. It can be a creak in your bed.

Then work through how this niggle can link to and impact other things throughout your day, similar to the exercises we’ve done previously.

After you’ve done that, take that same niggle and find something positive about it. View it as a tiny blessing.

And watch how that links to other things in your how, see how that impacts your day.

Can you see what a difference it makes when you simply change your perspective about something?

Based on the exercises we’ve done this week, do you now have a better sense of just how rich your life is?

Richness isn’t all about money. Money is but a small example of richness. And when we focus on the other riches we have in our lives, what do you think will happen in relation to money? We’ll start to attract more of it into our lives.

End this week by reviewing everything you have to be grateful for, everything in your life that makes you feel rich.

Spend only 15 minutes doing this. And then look at your list.

You won’t have had time to write down everything you can think of, and purposely so. Nor, no matter how much time you were to spend on this, would you be able to think of everything in your life to be thankful for.

However, if I were to say to you that the list you’ve just compiled is the very tip of the iceberg, can you now look at your life and give thanks for just how rich you are?