Is this the end, or the start of something new?

Many people look at the daily challenges we all face as ends.  The end of a job. The end of a relationship. The end of a vacation.

I choose to perceive these things as beginnings, as the start of something new.  A new career, the chance to meet new people, the chance to begin work with new vigor.

Why do I choose this strange path? Well, because I choose to be happy. Endings are generally thought of as sad negative things that imply loss. I prefer to be as positive as possible, even when there is evidence to the contrary.

After all since you’re alive, you might just as well be happy about it!

Wishing you a larger life,
BB

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An Attitude Of Gratitude

It’s difficult to see at first glance how thankfulness, or gratitude, can be an important key to your success. However, by attempting to cultivate an ‘attitude of gratitude’ you are tapping into the timeless laws of success.

Thankfulness is fundamentally related to positivity and negativity. When you maintain a grateful it is practically impossible to be negative about your life. As A. W. Tozer stated “a thankful heart cannot be cynical”.

Most work-places contain numerous cynical people – ready to run the company down, run the boss down and run the industry down. Most can and do, actually produce the evidence that supports their beliefs. Interestingly enough, the laws of success are also employed by these people. In talking about what they don’t like, they are using the principles to attract what they don’t want. The they act based on those beliefs. So, their reality reinforces their views about the company, the boss, the industry and whatever else has been the subject of their negativity.

Conversely, having an attitude of gratitude impacts your general outlook on life; and people generally will prefer to work with happy, cheerful, grateful people than miserable, down-cast, merchants of doom and gloom. As a consequence of this attitude truly grateful people, literally attract opportunities that others miss or even possibly repel.

Thankfulness is an attitude that is an  important key to personal success. It is an attitude we all need to learn to acquire – particularly when we feel we are in difficult circumstances and in challenging times like these.  So learn to be grateful.

Wishing you a larger life,
BB

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