The
Power of Gratitude
Do you want to achieve more in life? Do you want to
be happier and live more fulfilling? The power of gratitude can help you
accomplish that. Having an attitude of gratitude can change your life. Today
you can start living a more fulfilled and rewarding life.
Gratitude is defined as the quality or feeling of
appreciation or thanks. Learning how to be graceful in tough times can be challenging
however, having an attitude of gratitude can be key ingredient to turn your
life around. You may ask how can you be thankful in the mist of chaos? You are
not thankful for the circumstances you have to redirect you energy and focus on
something you are graceful for. One man used the power of gratitude to change
the world.
He born into slavery, dirt poor and as an infant his
mother disappeared kidnapped by slave thieves. He became both free and orphaned
at about the same time. He was raised by slave owners Moses and Susan Carver.
Because he was often sick he was not able to do hard labor but because of his
skin color he was not allow to go to school. His hungry for knowledge at an
early age, he begins to move in the Midwest in search for an education. He
supported himself by doing odd jobs as a cook and doing laundry. He saved his
money and enrolled at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, in 1890, a teacher
convinced him to transfer to Iowa State College to study agriculture after he finish
at Simpson. He accepted an offer from Booker T. Washington to head
the agricultural department at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He began to
do extend research and renovating the use of peanuts, soybeans, cow peas, sweet
potatoes. It was reported that the only
thing he would take in the lab with him was his bible and a thankful heart. His
attitude of gratitude allowed him to discover the multiple uses of agricultural
crops. You may know him by the name of George Washington Carver. He was a pioneer
and innovator that knew the power of gratitude.
The
power of gratitude helps you:
1. Resist negative thoughts
– When negative thoughts try to enter into your mind you find something you are
thankful it could be a scripture, a song, a poem, a flower. Refocuses your mind to something you are
thankful for.
2.
Gratitude
improves problem solving skills. As you focus your mind
allows you to think about the solution not the problem.
3.
It
activates the law of attraction. What you focus on you
will attract. Positive thoughts will attract positive things
4.
It
reduces stress. More positive thought reduce tension
and stress Negative thoughts creates negative emotion which cause stress.
