- There is plenty to go around. The world is abundant.
- When you are truly thankful, you will see what you have, not what you don’t have.
- You will see your bounty and be compelled to share.
- Share a smile, knowledge, financial assistance, or your time.
- Be in a state of thankfulness all the time, for things both monumental and trivial — from eyesight to fresh juice.
- Demonstrate appreciation for all the people in your life and everything they bring into it.
- You have everything you need.
- Be grateful for everything that comes your way, regardless of whether it presents a challenge or pleasure.
- Be as appreciative of a failed product launch as of a gust of cool wind on a hot day.
- Regularly write down and feel things you are thankful for, even the little things.
- One of the core elements of being happy is being truly thankful for what you have right now.
Your Dad’s Lesson:
Throughout my life I’ve had so much to be thankful for, but it didn’t sink in. Even though I was living with a wonderful woman (your mom) surrounded by family in a beautiful home that was less than a mile from the beach, I didn’t appreciate how very fortunate I was. Over time, this lack of appreciation led me to seek additional things, things that couldn’t fill my heart until I recognized how full my heart was already. Your mom would try to help me see the overwhelming bounty in my life, but I wasn’t quite ready yet — that is, until your birth. I was so thankful the day you were born that it just spilled over into every other area of my life. In what seemed like a moment, I stopped looking at what I didn’t have and automatically saw just how lucky I was in every area of my life. The fact that it was such a positive event that brought me to this realization was further evidence of just how much I had to be thankful for.
