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Using Gratitude and Appreciation to Find Your Life Purpose

March 19th - Destined To Grow And Fall

A lot can be said for an attitude of gratitude, but did you know it can also help you clarify your life purpose? If you rarely make the effort to feel grateful, you are probably familiar with a pervasive sense of boredom, frustration, dissatisfaction and emptiness.

Even if your life circumstances are bearable for the most part, you might still feel a bit disconnected and aimless on a regular basis. A shift toward a more appreciative mind-set can trigger incredible changes in your life – one of which is inspiring you to move toward the activities that speak most … read more

Gratitude and Appreciation: Endings to New Beginnings

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Endings are always hard, whether they involve relationships, jobs, change of residence or anything else. When our comfortable circumstances change, we suddenly find ourselves feeling unsettled and aimless.

What now?

Gratitude and Appreciation Reflect Back to You

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Have you ever heard that the people and situations in our lives mirror back what we project out? You can probably remember plenty of times when this seemed to be so.

For example, perhaps you awoke one morning in a grumpy mood – and then proceeded to encounter one grumpy person after another during the rest of the day. Or you felt overwhelmed with problems – and seemed to attract dozens more problems, both minor and major.

How to Start a Gratitude & Appreciation Practice

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Has adopting an attitude of gratitude been a challenge for you? Do you start each day with the best of intentions and then find yourself losing focus as you encounter more and more negativity?

The problem stems from trying to change the habits of a lifetime in one fell swoop!

How Gratitude Can Help You Attract More Money

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Gratitude is one emotion that works hand in hand with the Law of Attraction, especially where money is concerned. Where financial lack is present, there is a blockage of energy – some form of resistance is preventing the natural flow of abundance into the person’s life.

This can be difficult to understand by traditional lines of thought. Perhaps you are used to thinking of money as a tangible object that you have to obtain, like most people do. However, with the Law of Attraction, there is nothing to obtain, but rather ALLOW.