The Habit that Changed my Life...

One habit that helped me in my journey is...

Be grateful every day.

You might be hearing this all the time.

And yes, I also got curious about its effect on my life.

One morning, out of curiosity I asked myself: "What will happen if I do this every day?"

For the past 180 days, I've been doing deliberate gratitude practice by writing ten things that I am grateful for every day.

Yes, I have to do it consistently to build the habit of a gratitude attitude.

And I was astonished at its effect on my life.

During my younger years, I lack awareness & connection with my thoughts, words, emotions, and actions.

I always blame others for my problems, and I easily get mad.

Through this habit, I've learned so many things.

One of them is to not take things for granted. It trained my mind to appreciate small things and see the goodness in everything around me.

Like my warm tea every morning...

My breakfast...

Warm sunlight...

The opportunity to visit nature...

And my daily progress in life.

It also trained my awareness to see the positive effect of a situation, rather than looking at the negative lens of life.

It gave me more positive emotions like joy, appreciation, love, and fulfillment which is very significant to reach our peak performance every day.

It also helped me become more tranquil and forgiving of other people's mistakes and flaws.

Where is your focus most of the time?

Is it more on drama, negative situations, anger, and judgment?

Or is it more about being thankful for all the lessons, people, and opportunities in your life?

If it's more on the first one...

Maybe it's also time for you to incorporate this habit into your system.

Or you can also start by sharing below what is the ONE thing that you are grateful for today?

Life will always have the good and bad but with a grateful attitude, we can choose to focus on all the good things which make life so worthwhile and meaningful.

Understand: You don't have to wait for a great life to be grateful. You have to be grateful to have a great life.

Love. Jerom