The Importance of Gratitude for a Better Life
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Gratitude is the quality where you acknowledge what you are appreciative or thankful for. The importance of gratitude has a lot to do with mindset and attitude. There are strong social and emotional benefits to being grateful. When practiced regularly, it may help you feel more socially and emotionally fulfilled than you might feel otherwise. The practice of being grateful may cause a slowing of time; the ability to appreciate the little things going on around you. If you aren’t already aware, you should know the importance of gratitude for a better life. It’s one of those things that builds momentum for a better life.
PROCEED WITH CAUTION: Being grateful is highly addictive.
The Importance of Gratitude for a Better Life
When you are grateful you are taking the time recognize the value your life holds and you become open and available to opportunity. You acknowledge and appreciate and enjoy the little things in life. You might start to notice the opportunity surrounding you, that was already there, that you may not have realized before. Showing gratitude allows you to be in the present and notice time a little differently. You feel in control of your situation. You manifest your future; things don’t just happen to you. When you are grateful you become open to great things happening in your life with the sentiment that it was meant to be. You are no longer drudging through”bad luck”.
“When you are grateful you are taking the time recognize the value your life holds and you become open and available to opportunity.“
Be Grateful for all that Adds Meaning to your Life
I feel the most gratitude when my life is simpler. When I have less things, am not comparing myself to others. When I am not focusing on what I don’t have, I am able to focus on what really matters. For example, when I am focused on materialism and consumerism, it takes away my ability to acknowledge the nuances of what is going on around me. It makes my brain too busy and can’t be present in my current surroundings. When I am focused on what matters to me personally, I am more easily able to show gratitude; I am happier. Further, when I think about what adds meaning to my life, I feel so grateful as I already have so much. So much of what I love is truly attainable; so long as I take the time to appreciate it.
Today I am Grateful
This morning I need to take a moment for gratitude. I am sitting at my desk on the first floor of our building at work. I start on second shift, so at 8:30 am. Everyone else got here at 8 am. I’m grateful to be surrounded by good people, the smell of superb coffee (Drumroaster no doubt), flowers, and walls made of glass to let the sun in.
It’s my third day of work and I feel welcome and given a lot of independence. It leaves me to look through anything and everything relevant to me so I can learn as I go and begin adding value to this organization.
The Importance of Gratitude is that it Builds Momentum for a Better Life
Since my partner works longer days, he only has to work four days per week. A three day weekend. Every. Single. Week. Now that’s the life. We’re both grateful for the opportunity for work / life balance
That was a really good and inspiring post. Your writing is so good, keep up the good work 🙂
I think that gratitude is easiest to identify when you have gone through something and come out the other end. Like you were saying about the changes in your work lives, it’s easier to be grateful when you’ve experienced something differently. It doesn’t have to be traumatic, just less ideal than life as you know it now. You just have to recognize it.
Great post and what I like so much about focusing on gratitude is that it is rooted in mindfulness which can spread through everything your do. Keep up the positive mindset and your efforts to keep it part of your daily routine.
Gorgeous writing in this post! Agreed with Chris– love how mindful your gratitude is. Definitely inspiring me to think about a gratitude practice in a different way.
Gratitude is so important for overall happiness. Thanks for sharing this thoughtfull written piece.
Great post – sometimes we tend to move too fast in life and forget to take a moment to appreciate the little things around us. Gratitude is so important to emotional, mental and physical health!