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"A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer." - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Taking on an attitude of gratitude can do wonders for your personal relationships and your family! One of the biggest "diseases of attitude" is complaining. When you complain, you are not only focusing on what is wrong, you are also making sure everyone else around you is focusing on what is wrong too. Unfortunately, by complaining, you are only adding to the problem. By shifting your thoughts to what is "right" and good � in every situation -- you will soon discover that all events are essentially neutral and it is your attitude that determines whether or not something negative has transpired. So, the next time you see that you are not pleased in the way a problem was handled � educate yourself from what happened and decide what could happen differently the next time. Stretch yourself and think of what it would be like to be grateful that the situation happened just as it did. See if you can think that you are "freed" from something that would be worse. Allow yourself to genuinely feel grateful for what just happened and everything that it gave you - maybe you could discover the gift in it for you. At the last hour of every day, I take some time to review my day and prepare for the next. Part of the day�s review is where I feel gratitude for the blessings I received � perhaps in the form of a phone call I never expected from a vision team member; maybe it came in the shape of book orders; or possibly an email from a person I touched with my newsletter. These things remind me about what I do and why I do it. By adjoining with the blessings that I had to do with, I get recharged and ready for the next day. Hopefully you can feel the same way I do!
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Emily Bouchard has a Masters in Social Work and a Bachelors degree in Child Development. She is also a loving step-mother to two stepdaughters. She publishes a free Blended Families newsletter. Website owners! Get a statistically unique copy of this "attitude of gratitude" article.
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