Gratitude is one of the most important characteristics we can have as humans in this life.

It ignites the universe to know exactly where you are and where you are ready to go.

It is important to wake up every day and be grateful not just for the big things you may think of, but most importantly for the little things you may take for granted everyday.

Even when you feel as if gratitude is hard for you to find, keep searching for it. The seeds of it are all around you. I am a firm believer that when you change your focus things will begin to change.

When you have gratitude in the little things, you begin to look at and see the world and your life differently, from a different perspective.

Gratitude is an energy. It is a way of being.

When people are filled with gratitude, you can see it on them. They look different. They speak differently. They show up differently. There is just something from the inside that radiates on the outside.

As you begin to invite more gratitude into your life, what you will notice is that you will gain more things to be grateful for.

You will start to attract those things you have wanted and longed for.

What you focus on is what expands. Focusing on gratitude will attract even more gratitude into your life.

Take a few minutes at the end of each day and make a list of 10 things you are grateful for.

You will see that as you begin to put this into practice, you will start to increase your gratitude muscle. You’ll begin to look at things differently and you’ll start to find more and more things in your world to be grateful for. Soon 10 will become the least amount of things you’ll think of to be grateful for.

The more you open yourself up to being grateful, the more the universe will open up to you. It all first begins with just a seed of gratitude!

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