Happy New Year! How are you? Hope
you are maintaining that right mind to make the most of your prerogative to
enjoy the blessings you already have and you are about to have this year.
It’s been a week since year
2012 started. Everybody is back to their normal everyday life but most of us
are probably still can’t get enough of the holiday rest we just had.
Last year, I wrote a blog
about Two Powerful Tools to Achieve More Blessings for 2011. In my own opinion,
that was so far, the best blog I ever wrote – not that I have so many anyway. :) I just poured out my passion in inspiring
people through that writing. So just in case you would like to check it out
again, please go to this link – http://jembestroinsightandwisdom.blogspot.com/2010/12/two-powerful-tools-to-achieve-more.html
This New Year blog that I’m
sharing with you now is more of a reminder of that writing. We, humans, tend to
be forgetful most of the time. We are creature of emotions that we are only
focused of what we are feeling right at this moment. This is more like human
nature that causes us to throw things we have learned out of the window most of
the time. I say most of the time and not all the time because I believe that
there are also a lot of people who have already mastered how to stay focused on
what is positive regardless if they are feeling bad as of the moment – And I
hope all of us are like these people.
As much as we don’t have to
deny our negative feelings such as sadness, frustrations, hopelessness, etc. We
still have to learn how to go pass through those emotions because at the end of
the day, the choice is still ours whether we would dwell on those destructing
feelings or not. This reminds me of the status of one of my workmates before
that says “Kung may pinagdadaanan ka, daanan
mo lang wag mong tambayan” (If you are going through something – in this
case, problems – just go through it and don’t dare to take a coffee break there
hehe). I’m not sure if those are the exact words but the context is the same.
And as I have written in my
last year’s New Year blog, we must stay grateful amidst trials. Gratitude is still, and will always be one
of the best tools to welcome more blessings and good events to our lives.
“A
cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.” –
Proverbs 17:22
God himself is telling us how
maintaining a cheerful attitude can help us live life longer and happier. And a
person with grateful heart is definitely a happy person as well. Dwelling on unhealthy
thoughts will give us no good at all.
When you are already grateful,
this can easily lead you to the second tool I shared last year to acquire more
blessings, and that is Positive
Expectation. With a grateful heart, we can easily expect more favorable things
to happen in our lives. We already know the importance of holding tighter to
our faith but little did we know that being grateful is also an actual
expression of faith, and thus, positive expectation. According to Sean Rasmussen,
author of “The Secret Law of Attraction”, “The
man who can be sincerely thankful for the things which he owns in imagination
only has real faith”. It’s clear then that a man who is already thankful
for the things he is still not yet having is already expressing real faith. How
easier can it be then to expect more if we are already thankful for what we ALREADY
HAVE. It’s definitely easier, isn’t it? :)
So does expecting more.
Grateful
mind --> expects
good things -->
Faith (Belief)
Let’s stay focused then on
being grateful of what we already have. If you think you don’t have any, my
question would be “Did you wake up this morning?” The answer is definitely yes
since you are reading this right now, so that alone is something to be grateful
for. Each morning gives us an opportunity to make the most of our life. So
might as well take advantage of it. And let us all never hesitate to expect
more because we all deserve them.
In my last year’s blog as
well, I mentioned that I will share how to write goals in each area of your
life. This is not something tedious that you have to maintain everyday but you
definitely have to read regularly, or rather every day. This is apart from
writing things that you are thankful for. But I will share that in another blog
hopefully soon (hope I can impart something uplifting with you regularly so I think
I need something to work out on myself as well – and that is to forget the
thought wala ako sa mood (I’m not in the
mood) haha! I hope that it will help you in any way it can.
Let us all remember to start
our year right. So “How are you?” will be a question that we can always answer
with the word “Great!” or “Very good” instead of the usual “Ok lang”
God bless us all! Until next
time..
Julie Embestro
