Tag: gratitude

  • What are you taking for granted?

    What are you taking for granted?

    As I write this, I am sat in bed on New Years Day, watching Despicable Me 2 and utterly full of cold. It is amazing how much you appreciate breathing through your nose when you cannot. It’s actually a very good reminder for the new year – to appreciate what we all take for granted.…

  • Guest Post: Weeding and Clearing the Garden

    – Weeding and Clearing the Garden – Guest Post from Sue from Magnolias West. Lessons in focus Today I will be clearing some of the big, thick, thorny blackberry vines that are keeping me from the beautiful, sweet, ripening, plump berries, and doing some weeding. Clearing out the blackberries, now that’s a shero’s task. They…

  • Video: Fall In Love With Your Life Tip: Give Thanks

    Watch the video Gratitude is a wonderful tool to help you change from being fed up with life to being happy and appreciative of every blessing you have in your life. If you’re able to watch this video, you most likely have a roof over your head, clean water to drink and wash in, plentiful…

  • Happy Independence Day!

    Isn’t it a wonderful idea to celebrate independence? (Which by the way, I always want to spell indepeDANCE! Like a happy dance, but for freedom. Anyway.) I love the idea of a day off to celebrate being in charge of your own destiny. To my friends and followers in the US, well done you for…

  • Reflect Upon Your Blessings

    …Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some… – Charles Dickens Do you spend more time reflecting on what a shame it is for you that you don’t have this or that, or on how lucky you are to have plentiful, running…

  • Stop Looking At What You Ain’t Got

    [caption id="attachment_2486" align="alignleft" width="200" caption=" "][/caption]I had a vague thought in the back of my mind to write something about thankfulness and gratitude today, as it’s Thanksgiving in the States. Even though we don’t have that celebration here, I feel like I do…because I read lots of newsletters and blogs from folks in the states!…

  • Don’t Curse the Dark, Light a Lamp

    Today while working on my daily October practice of Laughter, I came across a video from Dr Madan Kataria, the founder of Laughter Yoga, in which he talked about the ancient Indian wisdom which says ‘don’t curse the dark, light a lamp’. Most of us have a tendency to curse the dark, to complain about…

  • Gratitude and Generosity

    This month, my ebook distributor smashwords is having a 50% off sale – and my ebook “110 Ways to Heal Your Money” is part of that summer sale – you can get it this month only for $4.99 (approximately £3). Half price! To buy it click here. And to help you decide if this purchase…

  • Wallowing in Happiness

    One of the things that ‘happy people’ have in common is that they wallow in happiness. They look forward to things (not just big things), they enjoy the memories of things (not just big things), they are grateful for good times they’ve had, they appreciate good things as they happen and make a big deal…

  • OnTheBeach – The Gift of Life

    Over the past few years, the frailty and fragility of life has been brought home to me at this time of year – my uncle passed away at the end of October, the following year one of my friends lost her fight for life at the end of November. And with Christmas and my birthday…