MM#18:

Don’t Take It For Granted

Hello, my friends.

I have been M.I.A.

Yes, missing, but still in action. Action unseen, to the internet eye.

I have not been blogging as I had expected these past months. But I have been very busy writing novels and short stories and the like.

And I have been learning how to format for eBook and publish to Kindle. More on that, soon.

For now, I wanted to share the musings on my mind this week. I have been gifted an opportunity to recalibrate.

I suppose I got so busy learning and living what I have been studying that I have perhaps taken for granted that not everyone is doing the same.

One of the major purposes of this blog was to share the lessons I find most helpful. So I would read something, write my own thoughts, and share with the world on this site.

Yet, maybe I began to take for granted that not everyone is reading or learning as I am. That by not sharing, I was being remiss. That perhaps others could benefit from my continued writing.

A client I was working with today made it clear that, while the words I shared were not new information, per se, the reminder was extremely helpful to realign to.

In other words, let me not take for granted the teachings I can still share through this medium. Let me continue to write and to share and to blog.

Finding Some Gratitude

So I am grateful for that reminder and grateful for the lesson. Just as I am grateful for all things in my life and in my experience.

It’s often helpful to remind ourselves of the amazing things going right in our lives, not to take them for granted and risk seeing them walk away.

What you put attention to stays, and what you ignore leaves.

Even the small things matter. Be grateful for the breath in your lungs, the water in your pipes, and the food on your table. Be thankful for the table. It could all go.

I have heard too many stories lately of people struggling in the world. One that stood is a girl who wore plastic water bottles on her feet as shoes.

I couldn’t fathom it. I mean, intellectually I could understand and realize why she needed this solution to walk across the hot, rocky ground in her third world country.

But then my heart just fell to think that shoes made out of old water bottles was a luxury in her life. Yet, the story goes, she was simply so happy to be alive and have her family.

Even this girl, malnourished in the third world, wearing water bottles, could be grateful for what she has. Certainly, it’s a reminder to us all that we can be grateful for all the things we have, as well. And we have so much.

I’ve heard it put thus: “Gratitude is the attitude.”

So don’t take your blessings for granted, offer all the best you have to give, and be grateful for everything in your experience.

Matthew Rondeau

Gratitude For Granted

Don’t Take It For Granted

Finding Some Gratitude