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- Playing the Gratitude Game
Your ability to receive is attached to how much you value yourself.
Gratitude is giving thanks for what you have been given.
It’s recognizing and giving back when you receive. It’s an energy that allows you to receive additional energy and resources. Wayne Dyer might describe it as a way to connect to “Source Energy.”
Gratitude is the way to CONNECT!
To be present and engaged.
To weld yourself more firmly to your family, your friends. To maintain the learnings of the past. To focus on what you want and push into the future with joy!
It is a prerequisite for happiness.
My mom has taught me this my whole life.
When she was a young mother, she realized she was having too many negative interactions with my older brother (her first child). It didn’t make her feel good, and we all want to feel GOOD, to feel GOD (Also from Wayne Dyer!). So, she decided to CREATE 10 positive interactions with my brother for every 1 negative interaction.
That was the game she played.
Can you imagine how hard that might have been?
Some of the best games are the ones that push us to heights we’ve never before achieved.
The people who play at the top of their field are doing just that: playing! Playing THEIR game!
My mom played HER gratitude game when she decided to create 10 positive interactions for each negative one. She actually got it from her mom! It changed her life.
It changed mine!
And for that I am grateful.
Thank you Tiem for teaching me everything I need to play MY game of gratitude. Now I can CHOOSE TO FEEL happy, connected, present, and engaged whenever the fetch I want!
(I can say that because I know she gets this email. This is mostly for her, you’re just along for the ride =)
Who can you thank today? What’s your gratitude game?
It is Thanksgiving after all, there won’t be a better day to start playing!
If you’re keeping your gratitude to yourself you’re robbing all of us (including you) of some joy!
Don’t be that kind of chump ;)
Sterling Long!
P.S. “Tiem” is my family’s word for “Mother.” My brother watched the animated “Atlantis” movie when he was younger and heard the little girl call for her mom saying “Matiem.” He immediately put it into use, and it evolved into “Tiem” which we still use today. =)