Appreciation – The Key To A Happy Successful Life

What makes your life unfold the way it does? Is it luck? Is it desire? Is it determinedly following your dreams until you get to where you want to be? I don’t think anyone would deny that unless you focus on getting somewhere, you’re not going to get there, but what about all of the little breadcrumbs along the way, all of the people that you meet, often it seems by chance, who take you to exactly where you want to go?
Many do not see how the world is helping them out, and miss a great opportunity to recognise how life is conspiring to help them out. Those things that come along at precicesly the right moment, or fit in perfectly at precisely the right point in the proceedings, as if it were always there waiting in the wings.

I would like to propose that you get what you ask for in life and you ask for things with your thoughts. Practiced thought on a subject is eventually turned into what we call a belief. You are living what you believe on every subject, as the world will respond to your beliefs. That is in fact what life is; feedback in manifestational form of how you are thinking (and therefore believing) about the world. 

The word ‘belief’ sounds significant but as a belief is just a thought that you keep thinking, and you have the power to direct your thoughts in the direction that you want, you can change your beliefs by changing your thoughts. As your thinking starts to change, the world will start to reflect back to you your changing beliefs on the many subjects in your life. Of course we are each a veritable melting pot of beliefs on the many important subjects in our lives, and to go back to the beginning of “all that” would be a sisyphean task. I’d like to propose a better (and easier) system; it’s called appreciation.

 

Appreciation is a mindset. A mindset of the happy and successful people, and practiced appreciation will ensure that you live a wonderful life. Appreciation sends out a message to the world which effectively says; “I love this and this and this, and I’m having such a wonderful life.”

And how’s that for a mantra, for a belief? Pretty good, I’d say. The world will continue to dish up things which match that belief. Here’s some more examples of word equivalent statements which lie behind appreciation:

• No matter how it may ever seem in the moment, things are always, have always and will always work out for me. 
• The world is wonderful and responds to me in a perfect way. I’m so ‘lucky’ to be where I am, in charge of my own life.
• I am surrounded by friends, family and work colleagues who have so many wonderful characteristics, and I appreciate their being here with me. Were having such fun, and we bring the best out of each other as we focus on each others good points.
• I appreciate my lover (or the many potential lovers of mine out there in the world), and I am looking forward to our relationship unfolding, causing satisfaction and evolution for both of us. It feels wonderful to have an object of attention in my life who I can appreciate, because appreciating feels like the most natural thing to me.
• I am doing really well in life, I’m clever and sharp minded, and I know how to focus my mind to feel good. When I feel good, the world is bringing to me more things that feel good, and that is good to know. The better it gets the better it gets. 
• Everything that I have asked for in the process of living my life is coming to me. I believe that when I ask it is given, and as I just relax and chill out, and appreciate the many wonderful things in my life, I’ll enjoy watching my magnificent life unfolding before me.

Everything in life has ups and downs, is made of good and bad. Focus on what you want to appreciate in your life. Make it your dominant belief by finding things to appreciate in every moment, and live happily ever after.