What If

So here’s an unusual thought. What if everything you loved began to disappear due to a lack of gratitude on your part? Meaning, if you didn’t take the time to recognize the gift that a person, place or thing provides you – it was gone the next day? Or let’s be a bit more generous and say it disappears in a week.

How many people? How many objects? How many body parts, for goodness’ sake, would no longer exist in your world? Vanished. Forever.

Multiple studies have shown the power of gratitude, not only on others, but on ourselves, and yet, how often do we forget to simply recognize. Let’s just put it out there. We, humans, can sometimes be a bit challenged in the grateful department.

So, if you are up for it, you may want to take a minute to think about those things that you are wonderfully thankful for but never take the time to speak words of appreciation. And then, consider what might you do a bit differently.