Living Large In Our Little House

On this day that we are sup­pos­edly giv­ing thanks for all of our bless­ings (and not mak­ing it about fam­ily squab­bles, the size of the meal, shop­ping, or who won the foot­ball game), I’m, of course, tak­ing this oppor­tu­nity to blog about gratitude.

On most days, I have an “atti­tude of grat­i­tude,” I find it within myself to be thank­ful for at least one thing in my life that is good. Oftentimes, when I am writ­ing in my vision jour­nal, I try to find as many things as I can, not lim­it­ing myself by find­ing “at least five,” or “at least ten.”

Sometimes I come up with a whole page of things I am thank­ful for.

I think for some peo­ple, it isn’t so easy. They will always find their glass half empty, or wish­ing for more than what they have. They see grat­i­tude as a fine line of accept­ing what they have as “defeat” or that they may not ever have more money, that big­ger house, the newest tech­no­log­i­cal device or the lat­est car.

They fail to see that we all must be truly grate­ful for every­thing in our lives in order to attract more.

On the days I find many things to be thank­ful for, it cre­ates a pos­i­tive energy that allows me to accom­plish more in my per­sonal and my work life.

That’s how grat­i­tude plays into the Law of Attraction.

I hope all of our Living Large com­mu­nity, whether you reside in the U.S. or some­place else, will find time to count your bless­ings today.

It will make you feel bet­ter and just might help attract more of what you want into your life.

Happy Thanksgiving!

At the end of this post, reg­is­ter to win one of two books!

About a year and half ago I wrote about The Law of Attraction, which is basi­cally the power to draw things into our lives.

I do believe in the power to draw good things we want into our lives. It’s not magic, but is based on a com­bi­na­tion of sci­ence, a good plan and the abil­ity to know when to jump onto opportunity.

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This is the time of the win­ter that it really starts to get to me. We’re far enough out of the  hol­i­days and still eons from the begin­ning of spring that I start get­ting the win­ter blues, cabin fever or what­ever you want to call it.

I was speak­ing to one of our Living Large com­mu­nity the other day, inter­view­ing her for an arti­cle on liv­ing in a small space and I asked her if the win­ter wears on her too and she gave me an unequiv­o­cal “Yes,” as she began talk­ing about spring and her plans for her garden.

This win­ter has seemed worse for some rea­son, we haven’t had the deep snows most parts of the coun­try have expe­ri­enced, but it does seem like it has been cloudy and dreary more and that makes the short days of light seem even shorter.

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This week, I’m blog­ging about the power of pos­i­tive think­ing, or The Law of Attraction, which, as I explained in my post on Monday, is not some magic wand that will make all of our dreams come true, but is instead, a roadmap that helps us attain the goals we want for our lives – like mov­ing to our own lit­tle dream home.

Successful busi­ness own­ers don’t have suc­cess­ful busi­nesses with­out a busi­ness plan, a roadmap to help them attain their goals for their business.

Vision jour­nals and vision boards, as it relates to The Law of Attraction in our lives is much like our life’s busi­ness plan. We out­line our goals either in writ­ten or pic­ture form and then we grasp the oppor­tu­ni­ties that come our way that help make those things happen.

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