How to count your blessings

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Hello there. How are you today. I hope all is well with you. Today I want to share with you a sim­ple con­cept to over­come worry in your life.

A few days ago I found myself doing one of the worst things that we as human beings tend to do and that is focus­ing on what we don’t have. You see I saw some­one or should I say a group of peo­ple with some­thing that I always wanted but for the time being I have never been able to acquire it as yet. It is too per­sonal for me to reveal right now but I found myself being very con­cerned and even feel­ing a lit­tle down because of not hav­ing it.

Any­way as I was going through the day I saw some­things that made me have a very dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive on my prob­lem. I saw a woman who had to be car­ried by a man because she had trou­ble walk­ing, I met a girl who was very young and has been con­tin­u­ally sick for years now and doc­tors can’t seem to cure her.

I began to realise just how great my life is and that there are peo­ple out there who will do any­thing to trade places with me and to have my prob­lems to be there biggest problems.

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I am sure that some of you are like that too. I read this quote in a Dale Carnegie book that said

‘I had the blues cause I had no shoes,

When upon the street I saw a man who had no feet.’

Dale Carnegie went on to say that about 90 per­cent of the things in our lives are right and about 10 per­cent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to focus on the 9o per­cent that are right and ignore the 10 per­cent that are wrong. If we want to be wor­ried and bit­ter and have stom­ach ulcers, all we have to do is focus on the 10 per­cent that are wrong and ignore the 90 per­cent that are glorious.

I want you to right now take out a sheet of paper and spend about 15 min­utes writ­ing every­thing you are thank­ful for. When you do this exer­cise you will realise just how blessed you are and it will be fool­ish­ness to con­tinue to dwell on what you don’t have.

So start count­ing your bless­ings today. Don’t think your bless­ings don’t count!!!

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Deb Chitwood March 31, 2010 at 10:17 pm

I love the Dale Carnegie quote! I’m a true believer in having an attitude of gratitude. I think the exercise you suggested is an important one. I try to write down the top things I’m grateful for each day.

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