Try This

For your consideration…..

How do you wake up in the morning? Is it with an alarm or something else that wakes you?

We are being asked to try this. Each day imagine you are woke by the front doorbell. And further imagine there is a surprise gift from someone you dearly love waiting for you when you open the door. Start each day this way.

Why are we being asked to do this? It is to put us in a state of gratitude and excitement. When we are in a state of gratitude, we are open to receive all that we desire in our life. We are inviting those things in. We are attracting them. The state of gratitude is the state from which we manifest our dreams. We are telling the Universe we are ready for the next step of our highest good. Gratitude is like saying, “Bring it on, I am ready, I am excited.”

When I was given this message, I was fortunate because I knew exactly what doing this looks like. I had a perfect example. From the time she was a baby, my daughter, Alex, has always woke with a smile. She always wakes in a state of joy. Even when she was in high school and had very few hours of sleep during the week, when I would go up to wake her she would smile and say, “Oh, ok, Mommy, thank you.”. I remember thinking how lucky I was, as co-workers would grumble on how hard it had been waking their spouses or children up. It wasn’t the way they wanted to start their day and it was a huge contrast to how I started mine.

When Alex went off to school, she was frequently called Sunshine. When she was asked to give the morning announcements, she minimized the job because she was qualified for a bigger  “more important” one. She was amazed when people would stop her and say, “Alex, thanks for the announcements.” “Or, Alex, I love your morning announcements.” Even today, I see many of those people write on her Facebook wall. “I miss you.” or “I miss your smile.” Everyone loves to have their day start off on the right note.

Alex still minimizes her gift. I can’t seem to find the right words to explain to her its enormous value. I know I miss it.

Attitude is contagious. We many not say it but we know it. How many times have we hid our feelings as not to bring someone else “down”? Why? Because we instinctively know its power and value.

Well, we can’t all have an Alex in our house. But we can imagine that we were woke by our front doorbell with a wonderful gift from someone we dearly love. That is what we are being asked to do. But we have a choice, we always have a choice.

The HOPE is we choose to start each day in a state of gratitude and excitement.

Bit by bit, piece by piece, hope by hope action steps anyone can take…..

-Meditate

-Take in some deep breaths. Breath in all that feels right and joyous.Breath out all that feels sad and destructive.

-Sit outdoors with your eyes closed. Just notice.

-Journal

-Drink lots of water

-Imagine you are awakened by your front doorbell and………

What made me smile yesterday……

-My neighbor and I went to the show. We saw Bridesmaids and laughed out loud.

-Shannon has finally made a doctor’s appointment for her back.

-Jackie, I think she is a little afraid of her granddaughter, Ashley. It reminds me of when we were in Poland and her dog took Alex’s “Mr. Stork”.

-Jackie and I laughed about our last trip to Poland and the trials and tribulations of getting all our purchases home.

Love, Blessings and Gratitude,

Chris