LIVING A LIFE OF THANKS GIVING: LEARN TO BE THANKFUL (GRATITUDE; GIVING THANKS; COUNTING BLESSINGS; THANKFUL; GRATEFUL)

Living the best life possible stems from appreciate who you are now, who you have in your life now, and what you have in your life now.

News flash: If you are not happy, pleased, content, or grateful for the people, critters, events, and things that you have in your life now (today), you will not be happy with anything else.

Let me re-phrase that: If you are not content with who and what you have now, you will not be content with anyone or anything else.

Learn to be thankful for who and want you have now.

Did you notice the first word of the last sentence? It was 'learn.' After all, we can learn to be thankful and give thanks. We can learn to look around and see the blessings in, through, and all around us.

Yes. We can learn to be thankful. And we can learn to give thanks for all we have.

So, how do we do this?

We can learn to count our blessings and be thankful through the simple act of giving thanks to anything that comes to mind or touches the heart.

Give thanks for all the people and critters in your life.

Give thanks for all the things in your life.

Give thanks for all the events (circumstances; experiences; moments) in your life.

Give thanks for every memory that comes to mind.

Give thanks for each moment you have lived today.

Count the blessings of the things that you like.

Count the blessings of the things you enjoy.

Count your blessings for the things that makes your heart happy.

Now, give thanks, and count as a blessing, for all the hard things. For your challenges. Every single one of them. The challenges today. The challenges yesterday. the challenges this week and month. The challenges this year. The challenges this past year. The challenges in your life.

I am sure you might wonder why in the world I would make such an outrageous request. However, there is a reason why. You would not be who you are today, in this moment, if not for every single challenge you have ever experienced.

Be thankful for everything. When you are, your life consists of blessing after blessing, and you discover you already live the best life possible, and that you do not need any one or any thing more. You are extraordinarily blessed already.