Gratitude

Nowadays, everyone is so busy with their life that they forget how much they actually have. You wake up in the morning and you rush to work, you create new projects and you solve problems, you struggle to get more and you get upset when things don’t work out. Every day is a fight to evolve, to achieve your goals and to become who you want to be.

Although being ambitious is very good, being grateful is even more important. How often you think about how much you already have, and how far you’ve come?

When you learn how to be grateful, you stop stressing about everything and you become more peaceful. How is this working? Let me explain: in a normal day, you can get very angry because you did not find a table in your favorite restaurant. You are hungry and you planned to come here since last week, so how come it’s so crowded? Well, all this negativity will not help you with anything, but it will damage you physically and mentally. Instead of thinking about all the things that go wrong, remember all the things you have to be grateful for. You have enough money to eat outside and time to do it; you have hundreds of restaurants that you can go to and new dishes to try. Why waste your evening being angry? Life is beautiful! Gratitude is a powerful weapon once you learn how to use it.

Besides all the benefits that Gratitude will bring in your daily life, it will help you improve your relationships with others. We all make mistakes, and sometimes we get upset for something that does not even matter. Instead of fighting with your family, you can be grateful for having them with you and for being such amazing persons.

To bring positivity in your life through Gratitude, you can try this small trick: every morning, after you wake up spend 5 minutes and think about what you are grateful for. It can be your nice home, your funny friends or just that stranger who made you smile. Either way, you will start your day on a positive note and things will suddenly seem better. Apply the same trick in the evening, right before you go to sleep. Instead of thinking about all the problems that you have to solve the next day, take a moment to be thankful for everything that went right in that day. Don’t you feel better already?