Summary: <p>Words of Gratitude </p> <p>Welcome to Episode 3 and today I will be talking about the absolute importance of words of gratitude</p> <p>You hear a lot from others, don’t you about how grateful you should be? What are you grateful for today? by an anonymous writer <strong>“Be grateful for small mercies”</strong> or <strong>“you should be grateful you are not poor”</strong> or <strong>“think yourself lucky you have got a job or your health or your family ”</strong> and so on Insert the appropriate phrase; I am sure you get the picture. </p> <p>Those common, trip off the tongue, words of gratitude, how lucky I am to be alive, how lucky I am to have food to eat, how lucky I am to have a job or whatever it was I should be eternally grateful for.</p> <p> I am ashamed to say, as a younger woman I never really took any of it as seriously as I should have. </p> <p>To me, it was something your elders trotted out when they wanted to make a point about you being an ungrateful little so and so. </p> <p>So, naturally, it went in one ear and out the other. </p> <p>It is only later and I am not really sure why the acknowledgement of words of gratitude seems to have taken on a greater significance in my life.</p> <p> Perhaps it is because I can now hear all the time, the much younger generation behind me, dismissing those words of wisdom in the same cavalier fashion I did. I hear them poo-pooing parents and grandparents and elders, just like I did at their age and into early adulthood </p> <p>And <em>I don’t like it,</em> says she who is now acutely ashamed of herself for being like it herself. </p> <p>Their arrogance and sense of invincibility matched with a <em>“nothing can touch me”</em> attitude pervading their snorts of mocking. The <em>“old fogeys”</em> are just rattling on. </p> <p>Recently I have found myself wondering why it has become so important to me now. I think it is because it has just dawned on me I might have become the <em>“old fogey”</em>... </p> <p><a href="https://www.createyourperfectbusiness.co.uk/words-of-gratitude.html%20">Read more here... </a></p> <p>Websites mentioned:</p> <ul> <li><a href="tinybuddha.com">tinybuddha.com</a></li> <li><a href="the-guided-meditation-site.com">the-guided-meditation-site.com</a></li> <li> <a href="https://melodybeattie.com/">Melodie Beattie</a> </li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/2SXGTbA">Search Amazon for Words of Gratitude Journals</a></li> </ul> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/createyourperfectbusiness/message
