How to Count Your Blessings

It’s hard to count our blessings sometimes. We often get wrapped up in the desire for more achievement that we fail to appreciate how much we already have in our lives.

We always want something bigger, something better, something new.

It’s hard to appreciate from a mindset motivated by desire. Our focus is often driven towards that which we want to have, not on those that we already do.

But appreciation, like many have pointed out before, is the single greatest key towards manifesting more in our lives. The more we appreciate something, the more we seem to attact of the same things.

Furthermore, when we are in a mindset of appreciation, we move into a space of plenty. There is no scarcity in the universe when we are appreciating. There is no lack. Everything feels within reach.

So how do we reach this place? How do we move from our present thinking, whether we feel lack, envy or lust, to a place of gratitude and thankfulness?

1. Recognize that you are enough. You are enough. When you look inside you and search for what’s missing for you right here at this moment, you will find nothing. When the bible said we are all perfect, the bible meant it. Right at this moment, this very second, right exactly where you are now, what is lacking in your life? Not tomorrow, not someplace else, but right here right now, what is missing in that second? Nothing.

Scarcity seems to be created when we move into a space other than the moment. Lack happens from a projected reality, not in the present.

2. Notice good things that happen to you throughout the day, no matter how small.

3. Choose an area of your life you have been working on for the last year. Write down how you were in that area one year ago. Write down how you are now. Celebrate any improvement and express thankfulness for them.

4. Say “Thank you!” to everyone you deal with whenever appropriate.

5. Share your blessings.

6. Look at different areas of your life. Inventory them. Start with your relationships, your financial standing, you career down to any area you can think of. Then, list down all the good things about them. Let this activity inform you of how many good things you truly have in your life right now.

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