What does it take for you to be grateful? What has to happen? Where must you be? What must you be feeling or experiencing?
These are questions that can be answered by most people and from answering these questions we quickly determine that gratitude is very much conditional. Instead of simply living gratefully, most of us express gratitude when conditions warrant an expression, similar to having good manners among esteemed company or being politically correct when appropriate.
If you have given some serious thought to what it takes for you to be grateful, I challenge you to do away with that criteria and evolve your appreciative thinking to encompass the whole of life as we experience it from minute to minute, for its joy, pain and indifference.
When asked, "What does it take for you to be grateful?" the best response is, "Nothing at all. I exist in a constant state of gratitude."
When the gratitude you feel deep down within grows beyond needing a catalyst or an ignition switch, your life and the way you live will be more powerful while simultaneously increasing your efficiency and effectiveness in dealing with life as it is presented to you from day to day.
So, ask yourself what it takes for you to be grateful then look within. Hopefully, you will be able to say, "Not much."
Grateful Brand was created to serve as a reminder of the importance of being grateful, expressing this gratitude through positive messaging and acts of kindness.
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