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Always giving thanks, regardless
“Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.”
- Rumi
Some days we have bad days. It’s part of life. Sometimes life just isn’t going our way. It happens. It can be easy to get sucked into a dark place where we feel like nothing is going our way and Murphy’s law (whatever can go wrong, will go wrong) seems to be in full force. In times like these, expressing gratitude may seem counterintuitive, but it can also help get us out of any funk we are in by providing us with another perspective. It’s easy for us to express gratitude when we are happy, but what about when we could use it most?
It can be tough to focus our attention on the things we are grateful for when life deals us multiple blows that can have us feeling down on ourselves and life in general. However, there is always something for us to be grateful for. Think about it. It’s not like there is always something wrong in every area of our life. It’s usually something going wrong here or there, or possibly in a few areas if things are really tough. When it comes to our health, our relationships, our careers, our finances, or even our basic needs, we can find the good somewhere in there. We just have to shift our focus.
Sometimes, it’s all of the negative stuff going on that clouds the reasons to be appreciative for anything. We…
