Gratitude List

When times are down, or when your not feeling so good about life when life happens, things are not going the way you wish they would or just plain down. One of the best tools you can use is The Gratitude List.

What you do is grab a pen and paper and start writing down the things your grateful for. Starting with just the material items you may have then add on the other aspects of your current life , such as a recovery community, meetings, family, sponsor, recovery friends and so on. Then go on to include the things that we normally take for granted such as, The use of a brain, eyesight, the use of limbs that work, living in the moment, I mean right at this moment are you starving , like many others around the world, do you have a roof over your head, again unlike many others around the world, the owning or at the very least access to a computer (your reading this), many around the world do not have this., Take a good look in the country you live in compared to many other countries around the world and all the things we take for granted that are luxuries in other parts of the world. A loving God who cherishes and adores you. Are things really so bad, or are you just being ungrateful for what you do have, and a little down because your "WANTS" are all not fulfilled. For true happiness we need to learn to be happy with what we have Rather than happy for the things we want. Point of interest as soon as one of our wants are fulfilled there are ten to take its place. So if your only happy when your wants are fulfilled you will never be happy. Happiness comes from within, Not from outside stuff.
remember God does not make garbage